What's the difference between bidden and ridden?

Bidden


Definition:

  • (p. p.) of Bid
  • () p. p. of Bid.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It solemnly proclaimed Ireland's independence, appointed ambassadors to the Peace Conference, where they have not yet been bidden, passed an address to the free nations of the world, and made some pretence of framing orders for its domestic procedure.
  • (2) The gestures and facial tics – both bidden and unbidden – have supplied further clues to what is in store when Ratko Mladic's defence against charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and breaches of the laws and customs of war gets under way.

Ridden


Definition:

  • () p. p. of Ride.
  • (p. p.) of Ride

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In this open study we reviewed the circadian distribution of extra doses of narcotic analgesics in 61 bed-ridden patients with cancer pain.
  • (2) State, regional and municipal public administrations remain politicised and ridden by patronage.
  • (3) Even so, the whole thing was knocked together for a fraction of a normal commercial and it's a pretty funny spoof of a cliché-ridden car advert.
  • (4) Innovation is required to provide home care to minorities who reside in economically depressed, crime-ridden, and drug-infested sections of cities.
  • (5) The factors with a significant influence on mortality were: emergency in institutionalized patients (p less than 0.05), the ASA classification (ASA III and more, p less than 0.05), autonomy (bed-ridden patients, p less than 0.05), medical history (more than 4 associated organ defects, p less than 0.01) and malignant disease (p less than 0.001).
  • (6) These relationships no doubt exist on a continuum, but at the clinical extreme, which is our focus, they are conflict-ridden and painful for both parent and child.
  • (7) Although EU member states will provide more than half the staff, debt-ridden Athens faces a mammoth task in getting 1,500 staff in place at a time when public sector recruitment is frozen.
  • (8) The course is floodlit, so can ride also be ridden at night.
  • (9) Her horse Barber’s Shop won the Tattersalls & RoR Thoroughbred Ridden Show.
  • (10) She’s keen on promoting bike culture and, once she’s ridden to work at the museum, the bike sits idle on prime tourist turf for the rest of the day.
  • (11) It is a pusillanimous, jargon-ridden, self-perpetuating proof of Parkinson's law .
  • (12) The out patients showed the most favorable outcome and the prolonged bed-ridden patients the worst outcome.
  • (13) Richard Dunwoody briefly set a new high of 1,699 but McCoy passed that 11 years ago and every winner he has ridden since then has been a record-breaker.
  • (14) In an internal email to staff, Bill Francis, the head of IT for BA’s parent company, IAG, said an uninterruptible power supply to a core data centre at Heathrow was over-ridden.
  • (15) Ridden by Racheal Kneller , it won the 14.30 at Southwell today and made a select few very happy.
  • (16) Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank (ECB), has reluctantly ridden to the rescue many times during the crisis; the ECB will begin large-scale buying of Italian and Spanish bonds on Monday.
  • (17) Other declared runners include Join Together, who is trained by Paul Nicholls and will be ridden by Daryl Jacob, who teamed up to win this year's National with Neptune Collonges.
  • (18) Mendes, agent, transfer intermediary, adviser to anonymous investors buying stakes in players, “partner” to smaller clubs, “leverager” of relationships in rich ones, has ridden that change.
  • (19) The crucial portfolio of economic and monetary affairs – policing national budgets, public spending, safeguarding the crisis-ridden euro – is expected to go to Pierre Moscovici, a French Socialist, whose room for manoeuvre will be limited by the powers vested in the two "super-commissioners", Jyrki Katainen and Valdis Dombrovskis, former prime ministers of Finland and Latvia, both of whom backed the strong Merkel position on austerity throughout four years of the euro crisis.
  • (20) Medical treatment, physiotherapy, and finally surgery can give very satisfactory results in an old patient, avoiding loss of function, a miserable existence and becoming bed ridden.

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