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Bedraggled vs Tousle - What's the difference?

bedraggled | tousle |

As verbs the difference between bedraggled and tousle

is that bedraggled is past tense of bedraggle while tousle is to put into disorder; to tumble; to touse; to muss.

As an adjective bedraggled

is wet and limp; unkempt.

bedraggled

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • wet and limp; unkempt
  • decaying, decrepit or dilapidated
  • * 1919 , (Saki), The Toys of Peace and Other Papers
    • She is only coming to gloat over my bedraggled and flowerless borders and to sing the praises of her own detestably over-cultivated garden. I’m sick of being told that it’s the envy of the neighbourhood; it’s like everything else that belongs to her—her car, her dinner-parties, even her headaches, they are all superlative; no one else ever had anything like them.

    Derived terms

    * bedraggledly * bedraggledness

    Verb

    (head)
  • (bedraggle)

    • tousle

    English

    Alternative forms

    * touzle, toozle, tussle

    Verb

  • To put into disorder; to tumble; to touse; to muss.

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