Synonyms of bedraggle

bedraggle

verb

bi-ˈdra-gəl 

as in to wet

to make wet

I was so bedraggled by the relentless rain that I couldn't wait to get into some dry clothes

Synonyms & Similar Words

• wet
• drown
• wash
• flood
• water
• water-soak
• wet down
• soak
• bathe
• rinse
• drench
• flush
• damp
• hose (down)
• waterlog
• dip
• sprinkle
• douse
• mist
• sodden
• submerge
• shower
• drizzle
• sop
• moisten
• hydrate
• souse
• splash
• inundate
• swamp
• steep
• saturate
• dampen
• overflow
• bedew
• lave
• irrigate
• asperse
• deluge
• humidify
• impregnate
• duck
• moisturize
• dunk
• sluice
• slosh
• rehydrate
• rewash
• rewet

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• dry
• scorch
• evaporate
• desiccate
• dehydrate
• sear
• parch
• dewater
• wring
• freeze-dry
• dehumidify
• drip-dry

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of bedraggle

The weary and bedraggled men reached the confluence of these two majestic rivers on Sunday, April 26. — Larry Rohter, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2023

On a dark and stormy day in Cape Town in 2013, four bedraggled little kittens arrived at the entrance of The Café Grill Restaurant at The Twelve Apostles Hotel and Spa. — Sandra MacGregor, Forbes, 2 Apr. 2023

The doll, covered in fluffy swan skin, suffered an ignominious end, beheaded and bedraggled in a courtyard the morning after Kokoschka threw a raucous farewell party for it. — Cathleen Schine, The New York Review of Books, 7 Jan. 2020

Chandler, be-suited and bedraggled, whose work in computer-something-or-other summons the amorphous anxieties of the coming digital age. — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2019