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English Dictionary: bedraggled by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bedraggled
adj
  1. limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud; "the beggar's bedraggled clothes"; "scarecrows in battered hats or draggled skirts"
    Synonym(s): bedraggled, draggled
  2. in deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble- down shack"
    Synonym(s): bedraggled, broken-down, derelict, dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.
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