to bedraggle

Examples

• All

• You'll arrive bedraggled.

  An Awfully Big Adventure (1995)

• His wig had fallen off completely and lay bedraggled on the bank side like a bird's nest torn from the bare hedge and flung down there.

  Blog text (5)

• Poor Flip appears bedraggled and worried.

  Blog text (14)

• When she reached the beach at last, she was exhausted and bedraggled.

  Fiction book (1994)

• They just fell... and were all bedraggled.

  Academic text (1998)

• He wasn't wearing a hat, and his grizzled hair was all bedraggled.

  Fiction book (1998)

• Even in the dim hall light, I could see she was dressed with a stylishness that highlighted Elena's worn face and bedraggled clothes.

  Fiction book (1990)

• The hikers returned to camp, bedraggled and tired from their long trek through the wet forest.

• The duck waddled out of the pond, bedraggled and dripping wet after swimming all morning.

Synonyms

M

to muddy

vsto bedraggle

5 1.9

Make something dirty with mud or sediment

is about trailing through wet ground to make items wet and dirty

M

to muck

vsto bedraggle

3 3.5

To make something dirty with mud

is about trailing through wet ground to make items wet and dirty

M

to mud

vsto bedraggle

1 5.1

To cover a surface with soft wet earth to make it smooth

is about trailing through wet ground to make items wet and dirty

D

to draggle

vsto bedraggle

1 9.4

Make something wet and dirty by pulling it through mud or water

is about trailing through wet ground to make items wet and dirty

M

to muddy up

vsto bedraggle

1 3.5

To make something dirty with wet dirt, for example shoes or floors

is about trailing through wet ground to make items wet and dirty

B

to bedaub

vsto bedraggle

1 9.9

To cover something thickly with a sticky, messy substance

is about trailing through wet ground to make items wet and dirty

D

to drabble

vsto bedraggle

• Archaic

9.9

To splash and make something wet or dirty, for example mud on shoes

is about trailing through wet ground to make items wet and dirty

B

to bemire

vsto bedraggle

9.9

To cover someone or something with mud

is about trailing through wet ground to make items wet and dirty

M

to muck up

vsto bedraggle

• Informal

6.7

To make something dirty with mud or dirt

is about trailing through wet ground to make items wet and dirty

Antonyms

C

clean

∞ 1.0

Free from dirt or harmful things

T

tidy

47 1.0

Having things in order with no mess

How Wet

to drench

34 3.0

to soak

156 1.0

to bedraggle

1 9.9

to wet

26 1.0

to dampen

4 3.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology