ridden
v.v. full of something bad or unpleasant. You use it to describe a place or thing that has too much of a specific problem.
v. full of or dominated by something undesirable. Often used as the second element in a compound (e.g. 'guilt-ridden').
The old house was ridden with pests.
After years of neglect, the local government was ridden with corruption and inefficiency.
The protagonist's journey is a tragic one, as he remains ridden with anxiety about a past he can neither change nor fully remember.
Morphologically ride + -en. See ride (verb).
Morphologically rid + -en. See rid.
Typically follows a noun and the preposition 'with', or functions as a suffix in hyphenated compounds.
He was ridden of guiltHe was ridden with guiltWhen meaning 'full of', the word requires the preposition 'with', not 'of'.