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to draggle

to draggle

1 9.4
Make something wet and dirty by pulling it through mud or water
  • verb
  • /ˈdræɡəl/
translation icon : ensuciar
  • After playing in the rain, the dog returned home with a draggled coat covered in mud.

Examples

  • It was down an alley near the cemetery, a small sea-green house flaking chunks of itself, half-hidden by shrubs and a draggled row of saplings.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • So she stomped that dress, dragged that dress in the mud, doused it with wine, and then lit that ablaze.

  • He stood his ground, this stripling boy in draggled garb, seeming half defiant, half afraid.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • They still call it the East River, that piece of the Atlantic between the Wall and the broken teeth of Brooklyn, where the draggled cobweb of the Brooklyn Bridge lies in wait to snare unwary ships.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • The child's dress was draggled from crawling through the wet grass after the rainstorm.

  • As the rain poured down, her hem grew draggled, leaving stains on the floor.

Synonyms

to drag
vsto draggle
704 2.0

To pull something along the ground with effort or force someone into a place unwillingly

specifies that this pulling produces wet dirt by moving through mud or water
to muddy
vsto draggle
5 1.9

Make something dirty with mud or sediment

focuses on wet dragging through mud rather than general muddiness
to muck
vsto draggle
3 3.5

To make something dirty with mud

adds the idea of wet dragging through mud to cause the dirtiness
to bedraggle
vsto draggle
1 9.9

Make someone or something wet and dirty by moving through muddy ground

does the same by pulling or forcing it through mud or water
to muddy up
vsto draggle
1 3.5

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

involves pulling something through mud or water to wet and soil it
to muck up
vsto draggle
  • Informal
6.7

To make something dirty with mud or dirt

emphasizes dirt created by pulling through mud or water
to drabble
vsto draggle
  • Archaic
9.9

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

involves wetting and soiling by movement through mud rather than splashing

Antonyms

to clean
∞ 1.0

To remove dirt and stains

to dry
570 1.0

To become free of water or wetness

How Dirty

to draggle
1 9.4
to soil
59 4.5
to muddy
5 1.9
to dampen
4 3.4

Surface Forms

draggle infinitive
draggled past
draggled past participle
dragging present participle
draggles third person singular

Morphology

draggle = drag (transparent) = drag + le

The verb is clearly built from 'drag' with the frequentative/verb-forming suffix '-le', so the resulting meaning ('make wet or dirty by dragging') follows directly.

Etymology

Draggle comes from the simple word drag ('to pull') plus a small ending -le that makes a verb meaning 'to make or become'. So to draggle something is like pulling it through mud or water until it becomes wet and dirty.