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ragged
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Word definitions for ragged in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ragged \Rag"ged\ (r[a^]g"g[e^]d), a. [From Rag , n.] Rent or worn into tatters, or till the texture is broken; as, a ragged coat; a ragged sail. Broken with rough edges; having jags; uneven; rough; jagged; as, ragged rocks. Hence, harsh and disagreeable ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN edge ▪ Text may also be set centred to the page leaving a ragged edge on both the left and the right. ▪ But by the next morning sleep had smoothed over the ragged edges of Folly's doubt. EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ...
Usage examples of ragged.
She proceeded to explain about the ragged bundle Acorn had carried, and described the rock that fell out of it after his death.
Many of the people afoot had worn and ragged coats, breeches out at the knee, dresses with tattered hems, and threadbare cloaks or none at all.
The landscaping was from another age: a couple of four-story cocoapalms, indifferently pruned bird of paradise grown ragged, agapanthus, andcalla lilies surrounding a flat, brown lawn.
By right, as an old friend who had found the airman in the forest, Seryonka was walking solemnly in front of the stretcher, laboriously pulling his feet, encased in the huge felt boots left him by his father, out of the snow and sternly scolding the other white-toothed, grimy-faced, fantastically ragged boys.
I would be every bit as effective in my ragged old coat, or stark naked for that matter, but he does insist-was Thero came in just then and Nysander gave Alec a wink that put him very much in mind of Micum Cavish.
His amanuensis found it impossible to keep up with him, and therefore profited by a hint from one of us, and instead of writing, merely moved his pen rapidly over the paper, scrawling all sorts of ragged lines and figures to resemble writing!
She was at it all week for more than eight hours a day, until her back and neck ached, and ragged curls of unfurling ampersands swam across her vision.
Rhapsody cleared her throat, ragged from the salt, and quietly sang one of the ancient aubades, the love songs to the sky that Liringlas had been marking time with for as long as she knew.
The tide was high, and the ragged rocks of the Banc des Violets in the south and the Corbiore in the west were all but hidden.
In the center, a skinny, gray-bearded man dressed only in ragged knee breeches was juggling four belaying pins.
And to the intent you may beleeve me I will shew you an example : wee were come nothing nigh to Thebes, where is the fountain of our art and science, but we learned where a rich Chuffe called Chriseros did dwell, who for fear of offices in the publique wel dissembled his estate, and lived sole and solitary in a small coat, howbeit replenished with aboundance of treasure, and went daily in ragged and torn apparel.
As Biter swung hard round on to the wind, Will heard a ragged fusillade.
Between the fireplace and the dying man squatted a thick-set black man, clad only in ragged, muddy trousers.
He thought Bling with his funny crewcut and ragged T-shirt had said New Wave.
Lolling sideways in his saddle, for several minutes he scanned the yellow-brown ramparts of the Amarillos rising rugged and ragged against the blue sky twenty miles to eastward.