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词汇 raddled
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Definition of raddled in English:

raddled

adjective ˈradldˈrædld
  • 1Showing signs of age or fatigue.

    (人或其面部)衰老的,疲劳的

    she's beginning to look quite raddled

    他开始出现衰老迹象。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He certainly has the right kind of presence, raffish and raddled, teasing and terrorising.
    • He's still waiting for the raddled old hag to be taken to The Hague for her war crimes.
    • Ravaged, raddled, redolent of hard-won experience, his voice sounds like something dreamed up by the Department of Health in order to scare people off smoking.
    • Overcoming initial incredulity and long-standing revulsion for this raddled adventurer, from March 1790 the royal couple paid Mirabeau for support in the Assembly and regular advice.
    • He is the permanent Fool to Gambon's raddled Lear, yet in his refusal to kiss his master reminds us that even the dispossessed have their dignity.
    • His schtick as an actor - whether playing a newspaper editor, politician or raddled old rock star - is always the same.
    • As it was, the tops all stayed on - which was probably for the best, given the slightly raddled state of the talent on display.
    • She steals the show as Billie Tricks, the raddled night-club hostess.
    • Down by the college flats near Darwin, I saw an old and slightly raddled bloke in a dog collar and full priestly garb.
    • This is a poor place in the draw for the rather raddled looking Dutch duo, who will struggle to be remembered by the end of the night.
    • The newspaper quoted disgruntled, raddled hippies who complained that a police crackdown had squeezed out their regular supplies.
    • In places like these you can always find a public park, a neglected patch of grass with a broken bench, a churchyard fully-equipped with raddled drunks.
    • He has the name and voice of a raddled troubadour chasing his dissolution around the American heartland.
    • Despite her innate warmth - you could toast your hands on her cosy personality - she played her absolute opposite, a raddled 1960s pop singer.
    • The men, middle-aged and raddled by the inevitable broken roads they have travelled, struggle to come to terms with their lives and damaged relationships.
    • Unlike his raddled old grandfather, Louis XVI was a chaste family man who never took a mistress.
    • No doubt, had George been in his heyday today, with his glorious talent and stunning good looks yet to be raddled by booze, he might have spent some time in Faliraki.
    • It's described as a ‘mutinous’ version of the 1798 epic, in which the raddled survivor of a crew lost at sea describes the ghastly consequences of shooting an albatross.
    • The abattoir worker's wife may be a prematurely raddled crone, but the horror she arouses is horror at the extent of her deprivation.
    • Unlike the raddled anti-heroes who dominate detective drama, Eddie lives harmoniously with his wife, mother and three daughters.
    Synonyms
    haggard, gaunt, hollow-eyed, drawn, with sunken cheeks, pinched, tired, fatigued, drained, exhausted, worn out, washed out
    unwell, unhealthy, below/under par, on one's last legs
    informal the worse for wear
  • 2Coloured with or as if with raddle.

    有代赭石颜色的

    raddled sheep

    代赭石色绵羊。

Origin

sense 1 from raddle in the sense 'rouge', by association with its exaggerated use in make-up.

Definition of raddled in US English:

raddled

adjectiveˈrædldˈradld
  • (of a person or their face) showing signs of age or fatigue.

    (人或其面部)衰老的,疲劳的

    he's beginning to look quite raddled

    他开始出现衰老迹象。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • This is a poor place in the draw for the rather raddled looking Dutch duo, who will struggle to be remembered by the end of the night.
    • As it was, the tops all stayed on - which was probably for the best, given the slightly raddled state of the talent on display.
    • Ravaged, raddled, redolent of hard-won experience, his voice sounds like something dreamed up by the Department of Health in order to scare people off smoking.
    • No doubt, had George been in his heyday today, with his glorious talent and stunning good looks yet to be raddled by booze, he might have spent some time in Faliraki.
    • She steals the show as Billie Tricks, the raddled night-club hostess.
    • He's still waiting for the raddled old hag to be taken to The Hague for her war crimes.
    • Unlike his raddled old grandfather, Louis XVI was a chaste family man who never took a mistress.
    • Unlike the raddled anti-heroes who dominate detective drama, Eddie lives harmoniously with his wife, mother and three daughters.
    • His schtick as an actor - whether playing a newspaper editor, politician or raddled old rock star - is always the same.
    • Despite her innate warmth - you could toast your hands on her cosy personality - she played her absolute opposite, a raddled 1960s pop singer.
    • It's described as a ‘mutinous’ version of the 1798 epic, in which the raddled survivor of a crew lost at sea describes the ghastly consequences of shooting an albatross.
    • The abattoir worker's wife may be a prematurely raddled crone, but the horror she arouses is horror at the extent of her deprivation.
    • The newspaper quoted disgruntled, raddled hippies who complained that a police crackdown had squeezed out their regular supplies.
    • The men, middle-aged and raddled by the inevitable broken roads they have travelled, struggle to come to terms with their lives and damaged relationships.
    • Down by the college flats near Darwin, I saw an old and slightly raddled bloke in a dog collar and full priestly garb.
    • In places like these you can always find a public park, a neglected patch of grass with a broken bench, a churchyard fully-equipped with raddled drunks.
    • He has the name and voice of a raddled troubadour chasing his dissolution around the American heartland.
    • Overcoming initial incredulity and long-standing revulsion for this raddled adventurer, from March 1790 the royal couple paid Mirabeau for support in the Assembly and regular advice.
    • He certainly has the right kind of presence, raffish and raddled, teasing and terrorising.
    • He is the permanent Fool to Gambon's raddled Lear, yet in his refusal to kiss his master reminds us that even the dispossessed have their dignity.
    Synonyms
    haggard, gaunt, hollow-eyed, drawn, with sunken cheeks, pinched, tired, fatigued, drained, exhausted, worn out, washed out

Origin

Raddled (sense 1 of the adjective) from raddle in the sense ‘rouge’, by association with its exaggerated use in makeup.

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