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• v  twist or braid together, interlace
• v  mark or paint with raddle
• s  used until no longer useful
  battered trumpets and raddled radios
• s  showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering
  that raddled but still noble face

• IN HIS MOST GLORIOUS COMIC ACTING ON film, Peter O'Toole played a washed-up swashbuckling movie star, raddled with debauchery yet oddly innocent.
• Since 1954, an equally symbolic novel has come to stand for the small expectations and raddled nerves of null century Britain and especially its middle-class intellectuals .
• Was that the last the world would see of the raddled bird? Far from it.

• raddle
• ruddle
• worn-out
• careworn
• drawn
• haggard
• worn