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Decaying vs Bedraggled - What's the difference?

decaying | bedraggled |

As verbs the difference between decaying and bedraggled

is that decaying is present participle of lang=en while bedraggled is past tense of bedraggle.

As a noun decaying

is the act of something that decays.

As an adjective bedraggled is

wet and limp; unkempt.

decaying

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of something that decays.
  • * 1839 , William Jenkyn, ?James Sherman, An Exposition Upon the Epistle of Jude (page 274)
    • Spiritual witherings and decayings are opposite to the word of God.

    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)