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haggard

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++hag·gard /ˈhæɡəd $ -ərd/ adjective  TIREDsomeone who looks haggard has lines on their face and dark marks around their eyes, especially because they are ill, worried, or tired 〔面容〕憔悴的;形容枯槁的 Sam looked tired and haggard. 萨姆看起来疲惫而憔悴。 a haggard face 憔悴的面容
Examples from the Corpus
haggardShe looked very pale and drawn, almost haggard.The face he saw was tired and haggard.Thelma, haggard and overly lipsticked, gave me a refill.The McCloskey who turned up in San Francisco seemed in pretty good shape, somewhat haggard but calm and centered.Chrissie sat down on the bare floorboards, and watched the haggard features of the man she loved.Her face was haggard, her eyes red, her clothes hung loosely about her.The jurors looked haggard on their tenth day of deliberations.Very few of us like to see pictures of ourselves looking tired, haggard or undignified, or with teeth missing.His face has commenced to take on that same haggard, puzzled look of pressure that the face on the floor has.
Origin haggard (1500-1600) French hagard wild
hag·gard adjectiveChineseSyllable
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haggard
haggard /ˈhæɡəd $ -ərd/ adjective
 Date: 1500-1600
 Language: French
 Origin: hagard 'wild'
someone who looks haggard has lines on their face and dark marks around their eyes, especially because they are ill, worried, or tired:
    Sam looked tired and haggard.
    a haggard face


Haggard
Haggard, Sir Rider
(1856–1925) a British writer known especially for his adventure story King Solomon's Mines about an Englishman among the tribes of southern Africa


hag·gardBrE /ˈhæɡəd/ 🔊NAmE /ˈhæɡərd/ 🔊 adjectivelooking very tired because of illness, worry or lack of sleep (由于生病、焦虑或睡眠不足)憔悴的,疲惫的 SYN drawn