Definitions
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 andlimp .
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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Examples
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Instead of cultivating your graces you bedraggle them with labor!
For Gold or Soul? The Story of a Great Department Store Lurana W. Sheldon
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Here in town, she probably preferred to tread the extent of the two drawing-rooms, and measure out the miles by spaces of forty feet, rather than bedraggle her skirts over the sloppy pavements.
The Blithedale Romance Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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