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• v  make wet and dirty, as from rain
• s  limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud
  the beggar's bedraggled clothes
  scarecrows in battered hats or draggled skirts

• She has become draggled and dirty.
• Particularly did she like pictures by Edgar Degas of be draggled and rhythmic danseuses stretching their weary tendons upon the ballet rack, pirouetting with a one, two, three .
• In a department-store basement a group of bedraggled female shoppers, including a spectacled schoolteacher, a colored wench and a draggled woman in a raincoat and hangdog .

• bedraggle
• draggle
• bedraggled