draggle

verb

Definition of dragglenext
as in to disarrange

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for draggle
  1. mess
  2. jumble
  3. disarray
  4. muddle
  5. dishevel
  6. disorder
Verb
  • Why risk messing that up because of a tiny screen? About the Author More Stories Coke, Twinkies, Skittles, and … Whole-Grain Bread?
    Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2024
  • This feels like a confirmation that Ellie was partly to blame for messing the laundry up before, even if unintentionally.
    Emma Soren, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2024
Definition of mess
Verb
  • They were stacked in teetering towers, jumbled in messy piles.
    Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
  • This kind of discovery is rare for Clovis technology, which usually has remains of many more visits and activities all jumbled together.
    Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 29 Oct. 2024
Definition of jumble
Verb
  • Seen in a video that moves through the abandoned and disarrayed hallways of the pediatric intensive care unit at Al-Nasr Children’s Hospital in northern Gaza were several babies whose unattended bodies lay on separate hospital beds.
    Yasmine Salam, NBC News, 2 Dec. 2023
  • Hybrid data is here to stay, so don’t let data disarray slow innovation or undermine smart business decision making.
    Ram Venkatesh, Forbes, 10 Aug. 2022
Definition of disarray
Verb
  • Fish and muddled folklore Oarfish have been found around the globe, but one particular country's history with the fish has gathered the most attention: Japan.
    James Doubek, NPR, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Congress found the effort deeply flawed, partly because of inexperienced political appointees muddling efforts and partly because up to $2 billion of taxpayer dollars disappeared to fraud and waste, according to its investigators.
    Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2024
Definition of muddle
Verb
  • In the very first scene of Hulu’s Great Expectations, a distraught and disheveled Pip (Fionn Whitehead) ties one end of a rope to a bridge, tightens the other around his neck, and leaps.
    Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Angular guitars, indie-disco beats, deliberately disheveled haircuts.
    Jon O'Brien, Vulture, 9 May 2023
Definition of dishevel
Verb
  • Climate change is so far advanced that its effects will disorder society for generations to come.
    Richard Sennett, Foreign Affairs, 30 Oct. 2020
  • On a molecular level, sarcomeres—proteins that aid contraction—were shorter and disordered after space exposure, and cells’ mitochondria, responsible for energy production, had become deformed.
    Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Sep. 2024
Definition of disorder
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Thesaurus Entries Near draggle

dragging (out)

draggle

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