[ US /bɪˈdɹæɡəɫ/ ]
VERB
  1. make wet and dirty, as from rain

How To Use bedraggle In A Sentence

  • Richardson, are proprietors of shows, and the berouged, bedraggled creatures who exhibit on the platform outside for their living. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843
  • She was all cold and bedraggled after falling into the river.
  • The visiting pack were in awesome form, consistently making ground at the edges of the rucks and gradually wearing down the home eight, who by the end resembled a bunch of bedraggled and punch-drunk boxers.
  • The poor garden is looking bedraggled: dry and dishevelled.
  • When we moved to a bedraggled wood 10 years ago, we were greeted the following spring by the exuberant golden blossoms of kerria.
  • The former dictator, a palace-dwelling billionaire, was the picture of bedraggled abjectness: mouth forced open, eyes staring glassily.
  • I barely recognized the bedraggled figure who staggered in from the storm.
  • How long, then, can Stern affect the pose of a bedraggled victim?
  • I know there are some seniors who are kind of bedraggled and can't picture being vigorous enough to be Prez at 72, but there are an awful lot of seniors who resent the age jokes. Latest Articles
  • The sweat-soaked, frightened, and bedraggled ci-devant dandy hammered at the door of his last-hope refuge.
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