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单词 bedraggling
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

bedraggling

verb

present participle of bedraggle
as in wetting
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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  • wetting
  • drowning
  • washing
  • flooding
  • wetting down
  • water-soaking
  • soddening
  • watering
  • bathing
  • rinsing
  • soaking
  • drenching
  • waterlogging
  • flushing
  • sousing
  • sopping
  • aspersing
  • damping
  • bedewing
  • dowsing
  • dipping
  • dousing
  • sprinkling
  • submerging
  • moistening
  • showering
  • humidifying
  • hosing (down)
  • moisturizing
  • splashing
  • hydrating
  • inundating
  • drizzling
  • dampening
  • deluging
  • saturating
  • misting
  • overflowing
  • swamping
  • laving
  • irrigating
  • sluicing
  • impregnating
  • ducking
  • steeping
  • dunking
  • sloshing
  • rehydrating
  • rewashing
  • rewetting

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • drying
  • scorching
  • searing
  • dehydrating
  • evaporating
  • desiccating
  • parching
  • dewatering
  • drip-drying
  • wringing
  • freeze-drying
  • dehumidifying
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