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Definitions: Raddled |
RaddledAdjective1. Worn until no longer useful; "battered trumpets and raddled radios"; "worn-out shoes with flapping soles". 2. 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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "raddled" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1939. (references) |
Synonyms: RaddledSynonyms: careworn (adj), drawn (adj), haggard (adj), worn (adj), worn-out (adj). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: raddle (industry), separator. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Drunkenness | Adjective: drunk, tipsy; intoxicated; inebrious, inebriate, inebriated; in one's cups; in a state of intoxication;Noun: temulent, temulentive; bombed, smashed; fuddled, mellow, cut, boozy, fou, fresh, merry, elevated; flustered, disguised, groggy, beery; top-heavy; potvaliant, glorious; potulent; squiffy; overcome, overtaken; whittled, screwed, tight, primed, corned, raddled, sewed up, lushy, nappy, muddled, muzzy, obfuscated, maudlin; crapulous, dead drunk. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Raddled |
| English words defined with "raddled": careworn ♦ drawn ♦ haggard ♦ worn, worn-out. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | She turned back to the raddled little woman. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Raddled" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 77.78% of the time. "Raddled" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 77.78% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 22.22% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "raddled": drug-raddled, rough-raddled. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "raddled"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Hungarian | kikent-kifent arc (raddled face), kifestett arc (made up face, raddled face), kendőzött arc (raddled face). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | addledray.(various references) | |
Romanian | sulimenit. (various references) | |
Russian | запутавшийся (puzzle-headed, puzzle-pated). (various references) | |
Spanish | depravado (degenerate, depraved, putrid, vicious), decaído (crestfallen, depressed, discouraged, downhearted, sagging, weak). (various references) | |
Thai | "ูเหนื่อยมาก. (various references) | |
Ukranian | спантеличений (baffled, bemused, blank, distracted, dizzy, perplexed), зруйнований (blasted, broken down, desolate, frustrated, ruined), п'яний (banged, blind drunk, boiled, boozy, canned, disguised, drunk, drunken, groggy, inebriate, intoxicate, lush, malty, noggy, pickled, pie-eyed, pizz, plastered, screwed, sodden, soused, sozzled, sozzly, under the table, vinous, wall eyed, wet, winy, woozy, zigzag). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "raddled": spraddled, straddled. (additional references) | |
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"Raddled" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: reddled. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-d-e-l-r" | |
-1 letter: addled, daddle, ladder, larded, radded, raddle. | |
-2 letters: added, adder, addle, alder, dared, dedal, dread, laded, lader, readd. | |
-3 letters: dale, dare, dead, deal, dear, earl, lade, lard, lead, lear, rale, read, real, redd. | |
-4 letters: add, ale, are, dad, dal, del, ear, eld, era, lad, lar, lea, led, rad, red. | |
-5 letters: ad, ae, al, ar, de, ed, el, er, la, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-d-e-l-r" | |
+1 letter: laddered. | |
+2 letters: resaddled, spraddled, straddled. | |
+3 letters: degradedly, paradiddle, saddlebred, skedaddler, taradiddle. | |
+4 letters: paddleboard, paradiddles, saddlebreds, skedaddlers, taradiddles, tarradiddle. | |
+5 letters: dodecahedral, hardheadedly, paddleboards, tarradiddles. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 61 64 64 6C 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. .- -.. -.. .-.. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100001 01100100 01100100 01101100 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R a d d l e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0061 0064 0064 006C 0065 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)52677070787170 |
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