Crossword clues for bedraggle
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bedraggle \Be*drag"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bedraggled; p.
pr. & vb. n. Bedraggling.]
To draggle; to soil, as garments which, in walking, are
suffered to drag in dust, mud, etc.
--Swift.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. To make something wet and limp.
WordNet
v. make wet and dirty, as from rain
Usage examples of "bedraggle".
He felt as if his own soul had been reduced into something piteousa bedraggled, sweat-smeared rat, trapped within a rock-fall, twisting and squirming through cracks in a desperate search for a place where the pressurethe vast, shifting weightrelented.
Twisting, she sagged to the ground, bedraggled, alone in an alley of dirt.
A few coins fell out, then a small, bedraggled, multicoloured knot of cloth strips, followed by a lone dark, smooth pebble.
They were a sadly bedraggled trio, sodden with rain, smeared with mud, their armour in tatters.
The blurring became a smear, then where the man had stood there was only a bedraggled crow, cawing sharply as it rose upward, wings thrumming, and was swallowed by darkness.
As he watched, two bedraggled specimens of local manhood staggered across the grey floor from the left doorway.
Indeed two men left the wall to melt into a pile from which two bedraggled specimens crawled toward the pink.
Indeed Astoria stood to the right of door, but she held the hand of a wide-eyed Julie Orville, who wore a rain-soaked dress and bedraggled shawl.
As they proceeded, four bedraggled males popped suddenly out of the intended pink and strolled in the opposite direction.
All of them seemed in good spirits as they poured into the dooryard, bedraggled, sweat-soaked, and thirsty as sponges.
Roger had a sudden vision of the two of them, Jamie and himself, standing now at the edge of this cavernous hole, like bedraggled mourners at a graveside.
The bedraggled captive struggled painfully to his feet, staggering, and set off back along the shore, followed by the dog and the two naked Scots.
I had no opportunity to speak with Sadie, and barely time enough to struggle into my bedraggled gown and stays and seize my small bag before being escorted into a carriagerather bedraggled itself, but once of good quality.
There was no reason why he should associate three nondescript, bedraggled travelers with a notorious case of murderand yet I had felt panic well up under my diaphragm when he glanced at me.
He had the window open and was lifting a small, bedraggled cat over the sill, a tabby cat, badly in need of a good grooming, with round eyes and an anxious look.