Meaning of haggard in English
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Classifying Adjective
haggardDefinitions
1. showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or sufferingExamples
- « 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 fa »
Synonyms
- 2. very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
Examples
- « emaciated bony hands »
- « a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys »
- « eyes were haggard and cavernous »
- « small pinched faces »
- « kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration »
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Noun
HaggardDefinitions
1. British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925)
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