English Dictionary

plague-ridden

形容詞

地域・共同体 慣用構文 人物

(of a place or community) Experiencing an epidemic or epidemics of bubonic plague or another illness. / (of a time) During which there is an epidemic or epidemics of bubonic plague or another illness.

日本語の意味

（場所や地域が）ペストまたは他の感染症の大流行に見舞われている状態 / （時期が）ペストまたは他の感染症の流行が続いている状態

The plague-ridden town struggled to bury its dead as supplies dwindled.

疫病に侵された町は、物資が乏しくなる中で遺体を埋葬するのに苦労した。

意味（1）

(of a place or community) Experiencing an epidemic or epidemics of bubonic plague or another illness.

That was in the days of the first great stampede to the goldfields, when the embryo seaports were as empty as though they were plague-ridden, and every man who had the use of his legs was on the wide bush-track, bound for the north.

意味（2）

(of a time) During which there is an epidemic or epidemics of bubonic plague or another illness.

The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988) chronicles gay life through the liberated 1960s; if White lives long enough, he hopes to complete the series with novels about the frenzied bathhouse ’70s and the plague-ridden ’80s.

意味（3）

(of a person, animal, body or object) Infected with or suffering from bubonic plague or another epidemic illness.

There was a saintly minorite, one Fra Cristofero, who came to tend the plague-ridden, and who himself was miraculously preserved from the contagion.

more plague-ridden （ comparative ）

most plague-ridden （ superlative ）