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bedraggled - 3 dictionary results

be⋅drag⋅gle

  [bi-drag-uhl]
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–verb (used with object), -gled, -gling.
to make limp and soiled, as with rain or dirt.
Origin:
1720–30; be- + draggle
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be·drag·gle   (bĭ-drāg'əl)   
tr.v.   be·drag·gled, be·drag·gling, be·drag·gles
To make wet and limp.

[be- + draggle.]
be·drag·gled   (bĭ-drāg'əld)   
adj.  
    1. Wet; limp.
    2. Soiled by or as if by having been dragged through mud.
  2. Being in a condition of deterioration; dilapidated: a street of bedraggled tenements.
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