draggle
[verb]
Synonyms: drag, trail, traipse

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draggle verb. ['drag(ǝ)l] E16.
[Dim. & frequentative of DRAG verb: see -LE³.]
1. verb trans. Make dirty, untidy, and usu. wet, esp. by trailing through something. E16.
■ Carlyle The wet day draggles the tricolor.
■ T. Hardy Lifting her skirts to avoid draggling them in the white dust.
■ S. Leacock All draggled with the mud and rain he stood.
■ R. Macaulay Her draggled hair drooping like dark seaweed round her face.

2. verb intrans. Trail on the ground; hang trailing or untidily. L16.

3. verb intrans. Come on or follow slowly; lag; straggle in the rear. L16.

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