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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud;
- Example: "the beggar's bedraggled clothes"
- Example: "scarecrows in battered hats or draggled skirts"
[syn: bedraggled, draggled]

2. in deplorable condition;
- Example: "a street of bedraggled tenements"
- Example: "a broken-down fence"
- Example: "a ramshackle old pier"
- Example: "a tumble-down shack"
[syn: bedraggled, broken-down, derelict, dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

bedraggled
    adj 1: limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud; "the beggar's
           bedraggled clothes"; "scarecrows in battered hats or
           draggled skirts" [syn: bedraggled, draggled]
    2: in deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements";
       "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-
       down shack" [syn: bedraggled, broken-down, derelict,
       dilapidated, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down]