Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
draggle . - adjective
bedraggled
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- adjective limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud
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Examples
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"Surely I shall never miss it," I said, and I had in mind the dark gray suit with the pockets draggled from the freightage of many books — books that had spoiled more than one day's fishing sport.
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A very miserable-looking man in draggled ducks, after nearly swamping the boat in the heavy seas, passed us the painter and climbed out.
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"Surely I shall never miss it," I said, and I had in mind the dark gray suit with the pockets draggled from the freightage of many books -- books that had spoiled more than one day's fishing sport.
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A very miserable-looking man in draggled ducks, after nearly swamping the boat in the heavy seas, passed us the painter and climbed out.
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A very miserable-looking man in draggled duck, after nearly swamping the boat in heavy seas, passed us the painter and climbed out.
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They were mere skeletons, draped loosely in draggled hides, with blazing eyes and slavered fangs.
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They were mere skeletons, draped loosely in draggled hides, with blazing eyes and slavered fangs.
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He cut a short pole at the water's edge and drew from one of his pockets a bit of line and a draggled fly that had once been a royal coachman.
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His face and neck were hidden beneath a black beard, intershot with grey, which would have been stiff and bushy had it not been limp and draggled and dripping with water.
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His jaws were apart, and through them the tongue protruded, draggled and limp.
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