Adjective
debt-ridden (comparative more debt-ridden, superlative most debt-ridden)
Dominated by debt.
Help is seldom available for debt-ridden citizens.
We are tasked to rebuild not just a damaged economy, and a debt-ridden balance sheet, but to do so by drawing forth the best that is in our fellow citizens. If we would summon the best from Americans, we must assume the best about them. If we don't believe in Americans, who will? Mitch Daniels
A debt-ridden farmer contemplating suicide in Maharashtra and a mother who abandons her children in Karachi because she can't feed them: this is what we have achieved in our mutual desire to teach each other a lesson. Mohammed Hanif
An advancing price meant a continued infusion of investor capital on which debt-ridden Enron in large part subsisted (much like a financial "pyramid" or " Ponzi scheme "). Source: Internet
ED had attached assets worth over ₹4,025 crore of debt-ridden BPSL in connection with its money laundering probe linked to an alleged bank loan fraud by its former promoters. Source: Internet
Fundraising stalled before enough was raised, forcing these visionary leaders to take control of the debt-ridden railroad. Source: Internet
It draws on the events of his affair with Henrietta Sykes to tell the story of a debt-ridden young man torn between a mercenary loveless marriage and a passionate love-at-first-sight for the eponymous heroine. Source: Internet