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单词 bedraggle
释义

bedraggle

verb

be·​drag·​gle bi-ˈdra-gəl How to pronounce bedraggle (audio)
bedraggled; bedraggling; bedraggles

transitive verb

: to wet thoroughly

Synonyms

  • bathe
  • douse
  • dowse
  • drench
  • drown
  • soak
  • sodden
  • sop
  • souse
  • wash
  • water
  • water-soak
  • waterlog
  • wet
  • wet down
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Example Sentences

I was so bedraggled by the relentless rain that I couldn't wait to get into some dry clothes.
Recent Examples on the Web The doll, covered in fluffy swan skin, suffered an ignominious end, beheaded and bedraggled in a courtyard the morning after Kokoschka threw a raucous farewell party for it. Cathleen Schine, The New York Review of Books, 7 Jan. 2020 Chandler, be-suited and bedraggled, whose work in computer-something-or-other summons the amorphous anxieties of the coming digital age. Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2019

Word History

Etymology

be- + draggle

First Known Use

1727, in the meaning defined above

bedraggle

verb

as in to wet
to make wet I was so bedraggled by the relentless rain that I couldn't wait to get into some dry clothes

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • wet
  • wash
  • drown
  • flood
  • wet down
  • water
  • water-soak
  • rinse
  • drench
  • bathe
  • soak
  • sodden
  • waterlog
  • sop
  • flush
  • souse
  • damp
  • dip
  • dowse
  • douse
  • sprinkle
  • shower
  • submerge
  • hydrate
  • mist
  • drizzle
  • hose (down)
  • splash
  • asperse
  • deluge
  • moisten
  • swamp
  • bedew
  • humidify
  • moisturize
  • inundate
  • overflow
  • saturate
  • sluice
  • lave
  • dampen
  • steep
  • duck
  • impregnate
  • irrigate
  • dunk
  • slosh
  • rehydrate
  • rewet
  • rewash

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • dry
  • desiccate
  • evaporate
  • scorch
  • sear
  • dehydrate
  • dewater
  • parch
  • wring
  • dehumidify
  • freeze-dry
  • drip-dry
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