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AH020387 Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

Ridden with failure

What does ridden mean in 'ridden with failure'?
  

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Are you sure that is not "riddled" with failure? I'd have to have a context for "ridden with failure" as nothing comes to mind for me about that. Could you give us the sentence or paragraph that it is in?

  • Are you sure that is not "riddled" with failure?
  • I'd have to have a context for "ridden with failure" as nothing comes to mind for me about that.
  • Could you give us the sentence or paragraph that it is in?
  • " Riddled means pierced with many holes, or filled with.
  • The bodies of the infamous outlaws, Bonnie and Clyde, were exhibited to the locals in their get-away car.
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Are you sure that is not "riddled" with failure? I'd have to have a context for "ridden with failure" as nothing comes to mind for me about that. Could you give us the sentence or paragraph that it is in?

Riddled with failure would mean replete with failure, e.g., "The whole project had been riddled with failure from the onset, and now would have to be abandoned because of huge cost ov
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Oh so this 'riddle' that you speak of here has absolutely nothing to do with the 'riddle' that menas 'puzzle'?
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That is correct. It has the same spelling, but a completely different meaning.

Back to "filing" reports, etc., other things that we use "file" with are:

Police reports are filed. (John filed a police report about his missing laptop computer.)

court cases are filed (Mary filed a lawsuit against the person who defamed her.)

police file charges (Today, the polic
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In answer to your question that was in the e-mail, which doesn't seem to appear hear, file does not mean to transmit. It means to go through the steps of a process to complete some kind of documentation to produce an outcome.

File tax returns

File police report

File a complaint with an organization

File a lawsuit

File an insurance claim

File
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I think what you're looking to say is written with failure as in that it has failure written all over it. however, you could also say ridden with failure as in that you have been riding as a failure or with a failure. you could also say riddled with failure if you attempted to succeed in overcoming this failure several times but were not able to do so. in general, however, you'll get the point acr

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