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Meanings of raddled in English

Showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering.

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Used until no longer useful.

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Examples for "drawn"
Examples for "drawn"
1
For companies drawn to Argentina's energy sector, significant challenges remain, analysts say.
Reuters
2
Europe has drawn 10 in the same time period, CB Insights said.
Reuters
3
It has drawn thousands of jihadists from across the world including Europe.
Reuters
4
The partial list of the 'disappeared' is drawn from Amnesty International reports.
Anil's ghost
5
American teen dramas in particular have drawn a great deal of criticism.
The Irish Times
1
I'm really quite worn out even after the first number, Idle said.
Reuters
2
Seven years is a long time and they are quite worn out.
Radio NZ
3
We won't be any use if we're completely worn out,' said Patrik.
The preacher
4
Whatever Mr. Socrates' agents had given him had not yet worn off.
The hunchback assignments
5
The problems could occur when the pedal mechanism becomes worn, it said.
Reuters
1
You are in trouble; I can see it in your haggard eyes.
A Fascinating Traitor: An Anglo-Indian Story
2
Tears blinded her eyes; her face was wan; her mien terribly haggard.
The Woman Who Did
3
The place was a ruin, haggard and falling apart, leaking water everywhere.
The saint of dragons
4
First light found the small group of Christians haggard and mentally worn.
The devil's touch
5
The haggard face under the gray hair turned slowly toward the messenger.
Trumps
1
Many great players enjoy their work; Stokes usually looks almost comically careworn.
The Guardian
2
Grey; and the face, tanned even in the shaven jaws, was careworn.
The Grey Cloak
3
The poet was in slumber, and his face looked careworn in repose.
The Grey Cloak
4
People look careworn to me in America; they are spare and pallid.
Children of the Market Place
5
He seemed careworn, not as young as he had been earlier-worndown.
Halo Primordium
Usage of raddled in English
1
The narcotic- and agony-raddled memories of the punishment factory had assaulted him.
The Scar
2
They had seen, perhaps, the raddled face of some final awful retribution.
The stand
3
Thompson all but steals the show as his raddled but protective mother.
The Guardian
4
Compared with the others, these were small, but raddled with damage.
Enclave
5
The last of the free wizards crept through the raddled landscape like ghosts.
Hidden Warrior
6
He makes a living ghostwriting the autobiographies of raddled showbiz veterans.
The Guardian
7
As it turns out, Mary is raddled, deluded and usually drunk.
The Guardian
8
You can hear it - the raddled echo of Nuremberg.
The Guardian
9
So would you be, if you'd been as raddled as I was last night.
South Wind
10
Listen, Doctor, do you seriously want to be part of some raddled witch's septic ovaries?
Death Trance
11
But I mind the day when I would 'a' raddled his bones with my quarterstaff.
The Yeoman Adventurer
12
And as they become more insane and addicted and raddled with disease, the quantity increased.
The skein of lament
13
The others soon followed in ones and twos, looking equally raddled except for Lynx, as usual.
Hidden Warrior
14
It has portrayed the unrest as the work of drug-raddled youths, terrorists and al Qaeda militants.
Reuters
15
And it's true that the film makes her look like Barbara Cartland on a raddled day.
The Guardian
16
Alma Mobley's face appeared across the windshield, wild and raddled as a hag's, screeching at him.
Ghost Story
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