different between bedraggled vs bedraggle

English

Etymology

bedraggle +? -ed.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b??d?æ?l?d/
• Hyphenation: be?drag?gled

Adjective

bedraggled (comparative more bedraggled, superlative most bedraggled)

1. Wet and limp; unkempt.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, “The Chase.—Third Day.”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, publishers; London: Richard Bentley, OCLC 30847311; republished as Moby Dick or The White Whale (Famous Sea Stories), Boston, Mass.: The St. Botolph Society, 53 Beacon Street, 1892 (8th printing, February 1922), OCLC 237074, page 527:

     A low rumbling sound was heard; a subterraneous hum; and then all held their breaths; as bedraggled with trailing ropes, and harpoons, and lances, a vast form shot lengthwise, but obliquely from the sea.

2. Decaying, decrepit or dilapidated.

Synonyms

• (decaying, decrepit or dilapidated): See Thesaurus:ramshackle

Derived terms

• bedraggledly
• bedraggledness

Related terms

• bedraggle
• draggled
• draggle-tail
• draggle-tailed

Translations

Verb

bedraggled

1. simple past tense and past participle of bedraggle.

English

Etymology

be- +? draggle

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /b??d?æ?l?/

Verb

bedraggle (third-person singular simple present bedraggles, present participle bedraggling, simple past and past participle bedraggled)

1. (transitive) To make (something) wet and limp, especially by dragging it along the ground.

Derived terms

• bedraggled

Translations