How to pronounce“bedraggled”in English
INTRODUCTION "I would ask you a favour," said the German captain, as we sat in the cabin of a U-boat which had just been added to the long line of
bedraggled captives which stretched themselves for a mile or more in Harwich Harbour, in November, 1918.
I made no reply; I had just granted him a favour by allowing him to leave the upper deck of the submarine, in order that he might await the
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Definitions of “bedraggled”
Wet, limp, and unkempt; in disarray due to being doused with water, exposed to the elements, etc.
“A low rumbling sound was heard; a subterraneous hum; and then all held their breaths; as bedraggled with trailing ropes, and harpoons, and lances, a vast form shot lengthwise, but obliquely from the sea.”
Decaying, decrepit or dilapidated.
“She is only coming to gloat over my bedraggled and flowerless borders and to sing the praises of her own detestably over-cultivated garden. I'm sick of being told that it's the envy of the neighbourhood; it's like everything else that belongs to her—her car, her dinner-parties, even her headaches, they are all superlative; no one else ever had anything like them.”
simple past and past participle of bedraggle.