bedraggled

动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /bɪˈdɹæɡl̩d/   

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. simple past and past participle of bedraggle. form-of,participle,past
形容词 adj.
  1. Wet, limp, and unkempt; in disarray due to being doused with water, exposed to the elements, etc.
    — 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.
    — She is only coming to gloat over my bedraggled and flowerless borders and to sing the praises of her own detestably over-cultivated garden. I'm sick of being told that it's the envy of the neighbourhood; it's like everything else that belongs to her—her car, her dinner-parties, even her headaches, they are all superlative; no one else ever had anything like them.

词形变化

more bedraggled comparative most bedraggled superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
bedraggledly bedraggledness unbedraggled
相关词
bedraggle draggled draggle-tail draggle-tailed

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁epider.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁pi
Proto-Germanic *bider.
Proto-Germanic *bi-
Proto-West Germanic *bi-
Old English be-
Middle English bi-
English be-
English drag
English -le
English draggle
English bedraggle
English -ed
English bedraggled
From bedraggle + -ed.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁epider.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁pi
Proto-Germanic *bider.
Proto-Germanic *bi-
Proto-West Germanic *bi-
Old English be-
Middle English bi-
English be-
English drag
English -le
English draggle
English bedraggle
English -ed
English bedraggled
From bedraggle + -ed.
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