raddled

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/ˈɹædl̩d/

adjective

Worn-out and broken-down.

Scrabble 10

Meanings

verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of raddle
adjectiveraddled (comparative more raddled, superlative most raddled)

comparative more raddled · superlative most raddled

  1. Worn-out and broken-down.

    And overseeing them all, like a raddled old good-ish fairy, is Bill Nighy, playing a superannuated rocker hoping to get a Christmas number one with his cynically repackaged version of Love Is All Around.

    2003 November 21, Peter Bradshaw, “Love Actually”, in The Guardian
    1 more example

    In the end her divine voice would crack, screaming to foreign ears and antipodal barbarians, and her clever manner would lose all quality, simplified to a few unmistakable knock-down dodges. Then she would be at the fine climax of life and glory, still young and insatiate, but already coarse, hard and raddled, with nothing left to do and nothing left to do it with, the remaining years all before her and the raison d'etre all behind. It would be curious and magnificent and grotesque.

    1889–1890, Henry James, The Tragic Muse […], volume (please specify the page), Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company […], published 7 June 1890, →OCLC

    Synonyms: weak, deteriorated

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveWorn-out and broken-down.

More synonyms by meaning

adjectiveused until no longer useful

adjectiveshowing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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Chicago

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