What is the meaning of bedraggled?

verb

adjective

  • Limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud.
    • usage: "the beggar's bedraggled clothes"; "scarecrows in battered hats or draggled skirts"
  • In deplorable condition.
    • usage: "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-down shack"
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