bedraggle

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Recent Examples of bedraggle The glam, somewhat bedraggled Batman to Adan’s Bruce Wayne made his first appearance in 2006. Richard Villegas, Rolling Stone, 19 Apr. 2023 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bedraggle
Verb
  • Potential for wetting rain exists and could provide additional containment opportunities.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • To clean, start by wetting the inside of your shower.
    Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 20 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Dry Dill To dry dill, wash and dry it thoroughly.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The base can even wash the mops with water heated to 212 degrees Fahrenheit to remove grease.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • After a man drowned off a popular Anna Maria Island beach over the Labor Day weekend, city officials are speeding up plans to ban swimming in the area.
    Ryan Ballogg, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2025
  • On Wednesday, as one of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims spoke outside the Capitol, pleading for government candor, fighter jets roared overhead, briefly drowning her out.
    Michelle Goldberg, Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Levante’s players, coach and staff played a big role in providing crucial supplies and support when the team’s home city of Valencia was badly flooded last October.
    Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The Plowshare Project dreamt up idealistic, peacetime applications, such as reversing the course of rivers, triggering small earthquakes to prevent large ones from forming, flooding desserts, and, above all, snaking out a Central American canal with fewer vulnerabilities.
    Shoshi Parks, Popular Science, 14 Aug. 2025

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“Bedraggle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bedraggle. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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