bedraggle

Meanings

• Verb

  1. To make (someone or something) untidy or disheveled.

  - "After the long hike, the explorers were bedraggle and in need of a hot meal and a warm bed."
  - "The storm had bedraggle the leaves on the trees, making the forest seem eerie and mysterious."

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Rhymes

Words rhyming with bedraggle
dribble , muddle , raggable , scramble

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Variants

List of all variants of bedraggle that leads to same result
bedraggle , bedraggled , bedraggles , bedraggling

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Etymology

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Originally meant 'to drag through the mud', from Old English 'bedragan'.

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Trivia

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1. Bedraggle is an Old English word that has been in use since the late 15th century.

2. The word 'bedraggle' is often used figuratively to describe someone or something that is in a state of confusion or disarray.

3. In some dialects, the word 'bedraggle' is also used to describe a type of fabric that is made to look intentionally disheveled or worn.

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Culture

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Bedraggle is not known to have any significant cultural, historical, or symbolic significance.

How to Memorize "bedraggle"

1. visualize
   

   - Imagine someone or something being dragged through the mud or made to look disheveled.

2. associate
   

   - Associate the word with the image of someone or something being dragged through mud or looking disheveled.

3. mnemonics
   

   - Create a mnemonic by remembering the word 'bedraggle' as 'bed' + 'drag' + 'gle' = 'drag someone or something through a bed of mud'.

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