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单词 disease-ridden
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Definition of disease-ridden in English:

disease-ridden

adjective
  • Full of or causing disease.

    scurrying, disease-ridden vermin
    crowded, disease-ridden conditions
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Foer became politicised, he tells us, by a visit to an industrialised turkey farm, crowded, filthy, disease-ridden.
    • Wild cats evolved into housecats, and they were quite useful for thousands of years, killing disease-ridden rats and mice and protecting our food stockpiles.
    • It's frightening when you think these needles could be disease-ridden.
    • They argued that the city was not required to regularly conduct state-of-the-art inspections to determine whether trees were rotting or disease-ridden.
    • During the summer, the wives and children of politicians often avoided Washington, which had been built atop a disease-ridden swamp.
    • The prison, which consisted of seven underground dungeons and a day-room, was filthy, disease-ridden, and infested with vermin.
    • The harsh regime resembled the worst British factories, except that it took place in a stifling and disease-ridden climate.
    • He considered himself fortunate that he had not been included in the earlier work parties that were sent up to cut the traces through the disease-ridden jungle.
    • Parents wanted safe, clean places to raise children rather than disease-ridden industrial cities.
    • Light was blocked out, rubbish and pollution accumulated and the scheme soon descended into a foetid, disease-ridden mass of squalor and degradation.

Definition of disease-ridden in US English:

disease-ridden

adjective
  • Full of or causing disease.

    disease-ridden vermin
    crowded, disease-ridden conditions
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Wild cats evolved into housecats, and they were quite useful for thousands of years, killing disease-ridden rats and mice and protecting our food stockpiles.
    • Foer became politicised, he tells us, by a visit to an industrialised turkey farm, crowded, filthy, disease-ridden.
    • Parents wanted safe, clean places to raise children rather than disease-ridden industrial cities.
    • The prison, which consisted of seven underground dungeons and a day-room, was filthy, disease-ridden, and infested with vermin.
    • Light was blocked out, rubbish and pollution accumulated and the scheme soon descended into a foetid, disease-ridden mass of squalor and degradation.
    • It's frightening when you think these needles could be disease-ridden.
    • He considered himself fortunate that he had not been included in the earlier work parties that were sent up to cut the traces through the disease-ridden jungle.
    • The harsh regime resembled the worst British factories, except that it took place in a stifling and disease-ridden climate.
    • During the summer, the wives and children of politicians often avoided Washington, which had been built atop a disease-ridden swamp.
    • They argued that the city was not required to regularly conduct state-of-the-art inspections to determine whether trees were rotting or disease-ridden.
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