bedraggled
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bedraggled
- /bɪˈdɹæɡl̩d/ UK
adjective more bedraggled · most bedraggled
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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.
Similar: bedraggled, blowsy, dishevelled, dowdy, dowdyish, down at heel, downgone, qualifier, draggle-tailed, draggled, frowsy, frumpy
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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, t
Similar: shabby, tacky, scroungy, mean, beat, beat up, beaten up, bedraggled, broken-down, crumbling, derelict, dilapidated
verb
- simple past and past participle of bedraggle
Translations
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adj unkempt
| 中文 | 全身湿透的, 满身泥污的 |
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| Deutsch | ungepflegt, verdreckt |
| Ελληνικά | ατημέλητος atimélitos |
adj decaying, dilapidated
| Français | débraillé |
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| Deutsch | baufällig, heruntergekommen |
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