| 单词 | bedraggled |
| 释义 | bedraggled (once / 7500 pages) adj If you're bedraggled, you're dishevelled, limp, and tired. Many people are a bit bedraggled after a very long plane flight. New parents who spend much of the night awake with a crying baby often look a little bedraggled, and so do travelers and students during finals week. Bedraggled people who haven't gotten enough sleep and aren't quite as pulled together and polished as they might like to be. It's an 18th century word, from from the now-obsolete verb bedraggle, combining be and draggle, "make wet and dirty" or "lag behind." WORD FAMILYbedraggled: bedraggledly+/bedraggle: bedraggled USAGE EXAMPLESNorman was found bedraggled on a pebble beach in St Leonards by a passer-by in September. BBC(Dec 16, 2016) Bedraggled civilians—long under siege and without hospitals, since the last one was bombed this fall—fled eastern Aleppo in droves. The New Yorker(Dec 13, 2016) For many Cubans, it was the first time they had seen their new leader and his bedraggled guerrilla army. Los Angeles Times(Nov 30, 2016) 1adj limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud the beggar's bedraggled clothes Syn draggled dirty, soiled, unclean soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime 2adj in deplorable condition a street of bedraggled tenements Syn broken-down, derelict, dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down damaged harmed or injured or spoiled |
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