英语词汇“bedraggle”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

bedraggle

释义

bedraggle, v.|bɪˈdræg(ə)l|
[f. be- + draggle.]
a. To wet (dress, skirts, or the like) so that they drag, or hang limp and clinging with moisture.
b. ‘To soil clothes by suffering them, in walking, to reach the dirt.’ Johnson. (Rare in the active till modern times.)
1727Swift Past. Dial. Wks. 1755 IV. i. 78 Poor Patty Blount, no more be seen Bedraggled in my walks so green.1857Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh 9 The very sky Bedraggled with the desolating salt.1871Daily News 24 Aug., The rain has fallen..bedraggling the flags and banners.
Hence, bedraggled ppl. a., bedragglement.
1727[see prec.]1824W. Irving T. Trav. I. 36 Such pale, careworn faces, such bedraggled dresses.1852Hawthorne Tanglew. T. 105 All in a terribly bedraggled condition.1882Standard 7 June 3/1 Elaborate costumes..much the worse, not for wear, but for..bedragglement.

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