"bedraggle" meaning in All languages combined

See bedraggle on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

IPA: /bɪˈdɹæɡl̩/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-bedraggle.wav [Southern-England] Forms: bedraggles [present, singular, third-person], bedraggling [participle, present], bedraggled [participle, past], bedraggled [past]
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  1. (transitive) To make (something) wet and limp, especially by dragging it along the ground. Tags: transitive Derived forms: bedraggled Translations (make something wet and limp): изцапвам (izcapvam) (Bulgarian), намокрям (namokrjam) (Bulgarian), kurata (Finnish), ryvettää (Finnish), durchnässen (German)

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