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Bedraggle

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To make wet and limp.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To make something wet and limp.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To draggle; to soil, as garments which, in walking, are suffered to drag in dust, mud, etc.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To soil or wet by dragging in dirt, mud, moist places, etc., as the bottom of a garment in walking; cause to appear wet and limp, as a flag when rained upon.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. make wet and dirty, as from rain

Word Usage

"Here in town, she probably preferred to tread the extent of the two drawing-rooms, and measure out the miles by spaces of forty feet, rather than bedraggle her skirts over the sloppy pavements."

Verb Form

bedraggled bedraggles bedraggling

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

douse soak souse drench dowse

Form

bedraggled bedraggling

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

draggle

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

gaggle haggle straggle