单词 | ragged |
释义 | ragged (rægɪd ) 1. adjective Someone who is ragged looks untidy and is wearing clothes that are old and torn. The five survivors eventually reached safety, ragged, half-starved and exhausted. raggedly adverb [ADVERB -ed] ...raggedly dressed children. 2. adjective Ragged clothes are old and torn. 3. adjective You can say that something is ragged when it is untidy or uneven. She could hear his ragged breathing, as if he had been running. O'Brien formed the men into a ragged line. raggedly adverb [ADVERB after verb, ADVERB -ed] Some people tried to sing, but their voices soon died raggedly away. 4. run sb ragged phrase [VERB inflects] If someone runs you ragged, they make you do so much that you become exhausted. [informal] They'd send me here, there and everywhere and I'd run myself ragged and get no place. For the first quarter of the match Australia ran England ragged. Idioms: run someone ragged to make someone do so much that they get extremely tired He tends to produce his best football before half-time, though often coming back to run defenders ragged in the closing minutes. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Translations: Chinese: 衣衫褴褛的 Japanese: ぼろを着た |
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