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EnglishTHE SCHOLAR'S LEXICON

draggle

/drag-uhl/US // ˈdræg əl //UK // (ˈdræɡəl) //

拖曳,拖累,拖拖拉拉,拖拖拉拉的

Related Words

pull牵引,牵引力,牵引物,牵引器drag拖动,拖累,拖拽,拖曳tow牵引,牵引物,牵引力,牵引车bedraggle杂乱无章,杂乱无序,杂乱不堪,杂乱

Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    drag·gled, drag·gling.

    • : to soil by dragging over damp ground or in mud.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    drag·gled, drag·gling.

    • : to trail on the ground; be or become draggled.
    • : to follow slowly; straggle.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbtrail
Synonyms
bedraggle杂乱无章,杂乱无序,杂乱不堪,杂乱drag拖动,拖累,拖拽,拖曳pull牵引,牵引力,牵引物,牵引器tow牵引,牵引物,牵引力,牵引车

Examples

  • The party was made up of a ferret-faced man with a red nose, a draggle-tailed woman, and a child in a crazy perambulator.

  • I have nothing to do with such milk-sop organizations, or the donkeys that draggle at their heels.

  • No one knew of it save Bough Van Busch and the draggle-tailed woman.

  • A few feet from the coach the water appeared to deepen, and the bear-skin to draggle.

  • She hasn't a penny, and goes about tattered, a draggle-tail, and sells her birthright for a handful of cold potatoes.

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