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How to pronounce raddled in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms worn-out


battered trumpets and raddled radios.
Type Words
Synonyms careworn, drawn, haggard, worn


that raddled but still noble face.

Examples of raddled

raddled
Or perhaps he has and his face was too raddled with Botox for anyone to notice.
From the hecklerspray.com
He makes a living ghostwriting the autobiographies of raddled showbiz veterans.
From the guardian.co.uk
He is looking decrepit for someone of 45 years old, and emaciated and raddled.
From the independent.co.uk
Porter and beef stew with explosive smoked oysters raddled with salty taste.
From the guardian.co.uk
Harris Yulin is fine as the betrayer and Jane Alexander dazzling as the raddled revenger.
From the time.com
Clytemnestra is the first to learn of her raddled husband's purpose.
From the time.com
Around seven minutes of a thin and ad-raddled news hour is devoted to the theatre of weather.
From the nzherald.co.nz
This Sunday you'll see her wearing prosthetic make-up to play a raddled older Lottie at her son's funeral.
From the thisislondon.co.uk
Opium smokers the both of them, raddled their brains.
From the usatoday.com
More examples
  • Used until no longer useful; "battered trumpets and raddled radios"; "worn-out shoes with flapping soles"
  • Careworn: showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering; "looking careworn as she bent over her mending"; "her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness"; "that raddled but still noble face"; "shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face"- Charles Dickens
  • Worn-out and broken-down
  • (raddling) patterns formed by weaving or twisting together ("fantastic raddlings of ebony")
  • (Raddling) Fitting rams with a harness that contains a paint block. The paint leaves a mark on the rump of each ewe with whom the ram mates. Lack of a mark tells the farmer which ewes should remain longer with the ram. ...