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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 "worn-out"
Examples for "worn-out"
1
It also takes up the old worn-out particles; this makes it impure.
Object Lessons on the Human Body / A Transcript of Lessons Given...
2
Just like herself: tired, worn-out, never any good even to start with.
Darkness
3
Age and sorrow weigh with a double weight on his worn-out body.
Camille
4
He pointed in different directions, looking with disgust on the worn-out men.
The apocalypse reader
5
Her little feet in the shabby, worn-out shoes scarcely touched the floor.
The Dark House
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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