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单词 bedraggles
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

bedraggles

verb

present tense third-person singular of bedraggle
as in wets
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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  • wets
  • floods
  • washes
  • drowns
  • waters
  • waterlogs
  • water-soaks
  • wets down
  • dowses
  • soddens
  • rinses
  • souses
  • bedews
  • drenches
  • soaks
  • asperses
  • bathes
  • sops
  • flushes
  • dips
  • showers
  • sprinkles
  • douses
  • damps
  • submerges
  • hydrates
  • splashes
  • hoses (down)
  • drizzles
  • mists
  • moistens
  • humidifies
  • swamps
  • moisturizes
  • deluges
  • inundates
  • rewashes
  • saturates
  • overflows
  • sluices
  • ducks
  • laves
  • dampens
  • impregnates
  • dunks
  • irrigates
  • sloshes
  • rewets
  • steeps
  • rehydrates

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • dries
  • parches
  • sears
  • desiccates
  • dehydrates
  • scorches
  • evaporates
  • dewaters
  • freeze-dries
  • drip-dries
  • wrings
  • dehumidifies
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