verb
- making wet, dirty, or untidy, especially by dragging through mud or water
Usage: present participle of bedraggle
Examples
- The rain was bedraggling her carefully styled hair.
- He came home bedraggling his new shoes through the muddy garden.
- The children were bedraggling their clothes while playing in the puddles.
- She avoided bedraggling her dress by lifting it while walking through the wet grass.
- The storm was bedraggling everything in its path.
- They spent the afternoon bedraggling themselves in the swamp during their nature hike.