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单词 bedraggle
释义

bedragglev.

/bɪˈdraɡ(ə)l/
Etymology: < be- prefix + draggle v.
1. transitive. To wet (dress, skirts, or the like) so that they drag, or hang limp and clinging with moisture.
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the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > make wet [verb (transitive)] > fabric
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1871 Daily News 24 Aug. The rain has fallen..bedraggling the flags and banners.
2. transitive. ‘To soil clothes by suffering them, in walking, to reach the dirt.’ Johnson. (Rare in the active till modern times.)
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > dirty or soil with specific kinds of dirt [verb (transitive)] > dirty with mud > dirty by trailing in mud
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1727 J. Swift Pastoral Dialogue Richmond-Lodge in Wks. (1735) II. 375 Poor Patty Blount no more be seen Bedraggled in my Walks so green.
1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh i. 9 The very sky..Bedraggled with the desolating salt.

Derivatives

bedraggled adj.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > [adjective] > muddy > dirty by trailing in mud
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1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 36 Such pale, careworn faces, such bedraggled dresses.
1852 N. Hawthorne Tanglewood Tales 105 All in a terribly bedraggled condition.
bedragglement n.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > [noun] > muddiness > dirtiness by trailing in mud
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bedrabbling1884
1882 Standard 7 June 3/1 Elaborate costumes..much the worse, not for wear, but for..bedragglement.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2018).
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