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[ US /ˈɹæɡəd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. worn out from stress or strain
    run ragged
  2. being or dressed in clothes that are worn or torn
    a ragged tramp
    clothes as ragged as a scarecrow's
  3. having an irregular outline
    text set with ragged right margins
    herded the class into a ragged line

How To Use ragged In A Sentence

  • He came back hours later clothes ragged, an excited look on his face.
  • You may think this trivial; the point is that if I'd mounted Miss Fanny that day I daresay I'd have lost interest in her -- at all events I'd have been less concerned to please her later, and would have avoided a great deal of sorrow, and being chased and bullyragged halfway round the world. Flash For Freedom
  • He believes one of the reasons the move ended up dead in the water was that negotiations dragged on too long.
  • An iceberg smashes its way to the surface, all sharp angles and ragged edges, rearing over the barely visible remains of a crushed and sinking ship.
  • The pacing was uneven, and the early second act dragged.
  • I even dragged my acrophobic mother up mountains in the Auvergne, only to leave her quivering halfway up while I persevered alone to the top.
  • He bragged that he had passed the exam easily.
  • His foot slipped and he grasped at a piece of jutting tile and dragged himself back to safety.
  • As we got closer, a face so old and cragged with such deep wrinkles they looked like sun-baked crevasses formed by thousand of years of standing in the wind and rain. Guanajuato restaurants
  • The grass looked like an old worn carpet, faded and ragged; the horizon was pressing against the cliff.
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