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Bedraggled
//bɪˈdɹæɡl̩d// adj, verb
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Wet, limp, and unkempt; in disarray due to being doused with water, exposed to the elements, etc.
"A low rumbling sound was heard; a subterraneous hum; and then all held their breaths; as bedraggled with trailing ropes, and harpoons, and lances, a vast form shot lengthwise, but obliquely from the sea."
- 2 Decaying, decrepit or dilapidated.
"She is only coming to gloat over my bedraggled and flowerless borders and to sing the praises of her own detestably over-cultivated garden. I'm sick of being told that it's the envy of the neighbourhood; it's like everything else that belongs to her—her car, her dinner-parties, even her headaches, they are all superlative; no one else ever had anything like them."
Adjective
- 1 limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud wordnet
- 2 in deplorable condition wordnet
Verb
- 1 simple past and past participle of bedraggle. form-of, participle, past
Etymology
Etymology 1
From bedraggle + -ed.
Etymology 2
From bedraggle + -ed.
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