| 单词 | bedraggle |
| 释义 | bedraggle (once / 7481 pages) v Bedraggle is a verb that means to make disheveled, wet, and dirty. Rain and mud bedraggle children who go tromping through the outdoors in their dressiest clothes right before family pictures. Bedraggle is a word that was probably very common in the early 1700s when people started using it. If a lady walked along the old, unpaved streets, it would bedraggle the bottom of her hoop skirt, and a gentleman might have set his coat down for her to walk on. Today we're more likely to use verbs like drench or soil instead, and, for the most part, to wear more sensible clothes. WORD FAMILYbedraggle: bedraggled+/bedraggled: bedraggledly 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) v make wet and dirty, as from rain Syn|Hyper draggle douse, dowse, drench, soak, sop, souse cover with liquid; pour liquid onto |
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