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draggle

/ˈdɹæɡəl/

draggle verb: to make, or to become, wet and muddy by dragging along the ground.

Verb

draggle (third-person singular simple present draggles, present participle draggling, simple past and past participle draggled)

  1. To make, or to become, wet and muddy by dragging along the ground.
    • […] with draggled nets down-hanging to the tide […]1844, Richard Chenevix Trench, “The Herring Fishers of Lockfynk”, in The Story of Justin Martyr: Sabbation and Other Poems
    • The rain drove into the bride and bridegroom's faces as they passed to the chariot. The postilions' favours draggled on their dripping jackets.1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Chapter 22”, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC

draggle meaning in Urdu and Kannada

draggle in Urdu

لتھیڑنا

draggle in Kannada

ಮಾಸಲುಗೊಳಿಸು

Forms of draggle

third-person singular presentdraggles
present participledraggling
past participledraggled
pastdraggled

Origin of draggle

From drag + -le.

Words formed from draggle

Questions about draggle

What does draggle mean?
Draggle means to make, or to become, wet and muddy by dragging along the ground.
What is draggle in Urdu?
Draggle in Urdu is لتھیڑنا. See Draggle meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is draggle?
Draggle is a verb.
How do you pronounce draggle?
Draggle is pronounced /ˈdɹæɡəl/.
What is the past tense of draggle?
The past tense of draggle is draggled.

Words near draggle in the dictionary

  1. dragging the chain
  2. dragging through the mud
  3. dragging up
  4. draggingly
  5. draggings
  6. draggle
  7. draggle-tail
  8. draggle-tailed
  9. draggle-tails
  10. draggled
  11. draggledness

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: draggle (page history and authors); draggle (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); draggle (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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