"rat-ridden" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From rat + -ridden.",
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  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1870 April–September, Charles Dickens, chapter 1, in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1870, →OCLC:",
          "text": "He then lays certain silver money on the table, finds his hat, gropes his way down the broken stairs, gives a good morning to some rat-ridden doorkeeper, in bed in a black hutch beneath the stairs, and passes out.",
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          "text": "1905, Ford Madox Ford, The Benefactor, London: Brown, Langham & Co., Part IV, Chapter 3, p. 282,\nYears ago he had completed his purchase of the ramshackle and rat-ridden old barrack."
        },
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          "ref": "1984 April 29, Henry Kamm, “Simple Compassion”, in New York Times:",
          "text": "[…] what Miss Borton found was a rat-ridden and overcrowded superslum that could be steered to as a goal, and accepted as even temporarily habitable, only by men, women and children who had come straight out of hell.",
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          "text": "1999, Philip French, “He killed a boy, and the binmen are on strike. Life really stinks...” (review of the film Ratcatcher), The Guardian, 14 November, 1999,\nThe polluted canal and the foetid, rat-ridden garbage become forceful symbols of a society indifferent to the suffering in its lower depths and the inability of the demoralised to change their condition."
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  "etymology_text": "From rat + -ridden.",
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          "ref": "1870 April–September, Charles Dickens, chapter 1, in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1870, →OCLC:",
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        },
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          "text": "1905, Ford Madox Ford, The Benefactor, London: Brown, Langham & Co., Part IV, Chapter 3, p. 282,\nYears ago he had completed his purchase of the ramshackle and rat-ridden old barrack."
        },
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          "text": "1999, Philip French, “He killed a boy, and the binmen are on strike. Life really stinks...” (review of the film Ratcatcher), The Guardian, 14 November, 1999,\nThe polluted canal and the foetid, rat-ridden garbage become forceful symbols of a society indifferent to the suffering in its lower depths and the inability of the demoralised to change their condition."
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