Word Finder - ragged

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In tatters, having the texture broken.

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a ragged coat

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Having rough edges; jagged or uneven

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ragged rocks

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Harsh-sounding; having an unpleasant noise

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Wearing tattered clothes.

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a ragged fellow

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Rough; shaggy; rugged.

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Faulty; lacking in skill, reliability, or organization.

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Performed in a syncopated manner, especially in ragtime.

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Of a data structure: having uneven levels.

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a ragged hierarchy

Her breathing was ragged, tears on her face.

Often the poor man is not so cold and hungry as he is dirty and ragged and gross.

He drew a ragged breath.

He looked down, and she bounded to the kitchen, surprised to find her breathing ragged after such a simple kiss.

Cape Ann has a rugged interior and a ragged, rocky coast.

When old, the branches, broken and bent down by the winter snows, give it a ragged but very picturesque aspect.

For forty years he was president of the Ragged School Union.

The Pacific border of the coast range of British Columbia is ragged with fjords and channels, where large steamers may go 50 or Too m.

Her voice was ragged.

In 1847 he began the greatest work of his life by the publication of his first "Plea for Ragged Schools."

After a number of tentative plans, he resolved in 1695 to institute what is often called a "ragged school," supported by public charity.

The finer kinds, after the more shrubby or ill-grown rods, termed Ragged, have been rejected, are peeled or buffed.

The surface is shown to be a plain of degradation by a gradual ascent here and there to the crest of a ragged escarpment, the cuesta-remnant of a resistant stratum; and by the presence of lava-capped mesas and dike-ridges, surmounting the general level by 500 ft.

I look very ragged my hair hasn't been washed in two months!

You'll be working yourself ragged trying to get up them mountains, tailing behind 2,000 people.

An American Aphid of the genus Pemphigus produces black, ragged, leathery and cut-shaped excrescences on the young branches of the hickory.

There is but little natural vegetation to be seen - ragged yucca trees, many species of agave and cactus, scrubby mesquite bushes, sage bushes and occasional clumps of coarse grasses.

On the east it is strongly undercut by the retrogressive erosion of the headwaters of the Red, Brazos and Colorado rivers of Texas, and presents a ragged escarpment, 500 to 800 ft.

Sharp scissors have to be used to cut these bottles, if you leave a ragged cut edge it could cut fingers and hands.

In the photograph, the stark silhouettes of the ragged tree stumps fade into the aerial perspective of the murky, undefined distance.

In wetter areas, tufted hair-grass, ragged robin and meadow sweet are common.

Ragged men crouched in doorways held out their tweed caps.

There were tears on her face, and her breathing was shallow and ragged.

Push hard, and shoot me up, he instructed, though his voice was ragged.

Deidre's breathing was ragged as she tried to process what she was about to do.

Her breathing was ragged, her frame shaking.

Her breathing as loud and ragged as Hannah.s, Katie paused for a deep breath inside the larger stairwell.

Agonizing over how much time Rhyn had, she finally reached the water-soaked sand and sucked in ragged breaths as she knelt for a moment of rest.

You must find them before they - " "Rhyn," Gabriel's ragged voice drew his attention.

Her breathing was ragged and uneven, her trembling body slick with sweat.

Her breathing was ragged.

Are they all running you ragged?

Her breathing was ragged, her body shaking from the effect of his bite as well as her effort to fight his spell.

In the more southern parts of the island it often reaches a height of 90 ft., and specimens exist considerably above that size; but the young shoots are apt to be injured in severe winters, and the tree on light soils is also hurt by long droughts, so that it usually presents a ragged appearance; though, in the distance, the lofty top and horizontal boughs sometimes stand out in most picturesque relief above the rounded summits of the neighbouring trees.

The general characteristics of the lakes in the north differ from those of the south, the former being generally deep, with ragged rocky shores formed by glacial scouring which caused rock basins, the latter being mostly shallow.

This grand feat of arms was marked by many points of interest, such as the capture of the Dutch ships, which were frozen in the Helder, by the French hussars, and the splendid discipline of the ragged battalions in Amsterdam, who, with the richest city of the continent to sack, yet behaved with a self-restraint which few revolutionary and Napoleonic armies attained.

Once ordained bishop of Edessa, with the connivance of Theodora, James, disguised as a ragged beggar (whence his name Baradaeus, Syriac Burdeana, Arabic alBar adia), traversed these regions preaching, teaching and ordaining new clergy to the number, it is said, of 80,000.

Before the end of the year the invasion was repulsed, and the ragged armies of the Revolution had overrun Savoy and the Austrian Netherlands, and were threatening the aristocratic Dutch republic Very few governments in Europe were so rooted in the affections of their people as to be able to look without terror on the challenge thus thrown out to them.

You ought to see some poetic justice in that—he ragged you enough during the debate about your line-of-duty-shot-in-the-ass wound.

Agonizing over how much time Rhyn had, she finally reached the water.s edge and sucked in ragged breaths as she knelt for a moment of rest.

She disguised her beauty as an old man, a ragged peasant, and no one paid heed as she carefully moved up the narrow pathway until she finally reached the edge of the cliff and sighted the spot where Jership the Terrible had secured his line.

In the end fitness told and as the tackling became ragged Chatham House ran in a number of tries.

For work the men use a leather apron, and in the cold season and in travelling a burnous, usually a family heirloom, old and ragged; the women, in winter, throw a coloured cloth over their shoulders.

Leading from the study was a passage in which a partition with ragged curtains could be seen.

The whole army--French, Italian, German, Polish, and Dutch--hungry, ragged, and weary of the campaign, felt at the sight of an army blocking their road to Moscow that the wine was drawn and must be drunk.

Cossacks, hussars, and ragged Russian prisoners, who had come running from both sides of the road, were shouting something loudly and incoherently.

I look very ragged my hair has n't been washed in two months !

Dai 's clothes were so ragged and he looked so wan that the farmer 's Welsh heart went out to him.

Too near the ragged edge to let down even for an hour.

When he reached the crest I saw the ragged uncouth figure outlined for an instant against the cold blue sky.