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# bedraggled

«bedraggled» in Mova's school dictionary: **Wet, dirty and messy, as when you have been out in rain…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (bedraggled)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Wet, dirty and messy, as when you have been out in rain or mud. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bedraggled/#m1)

2) Looking untidy, worn out and sorry for yourself. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bedraggled/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland the birds and animals come out of the Pool of Tears a «queer-looking party», with draggled feathers and wet fur, and must get dry (hence the Caucus-race). Stories use «bedraggled» to show someone has had a hard time: a bedraggled cat after a storm. In everyday life: a bedraggled teddy, bedraggled flowers after rain.

### examples

- The kitten came in from the rain looking bedraggled. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bedraggled/#x1)
- After the storm, the garden flowers were bedraggled and bent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bedraggled/#x2)
- The bedraggled hikers finally reached the hut. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bedraggled/#x3)
- The animals climbed out of the pool wet and bedraggled. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bedraggled/#x4)
- My old teddy is bedraggled but I still love him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bedraggled/#x5)
- Toad arrived home bedraggled, muddy and very sorry for himself. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bedraggled/#x6)
- Glad he was to see a light, and a minute after he was kneeling, dazed, drenched, and bedraggled by the hearth side. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bedraggled/#x7)

### note

Spelled with double g and one l: «bedraggled» (be- + draggled). Used as an adjective.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bedraggled» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bedraggled/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.