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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To make wet and limp.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To soil or wet by dragging in dirt, mud, moist places, etc., as the bottom of a garment in walking; cause to appear wet and limp, as a flag when rained upon.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To draggle; to soil, as garments which, in walking, are suffered to drag in dust, mud, etc.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To make something wet and limp.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb make wet and dirty, as from rain

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[be– + draggle.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

be- +‎ draggle

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