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hag·gard

(hăg′ərd)

adj.

1. Exhausted or distraught and often gaunt in appearance.

2. Wild and intractable. Used of a hawk in falconry.

An adult hawk captured for training.

[French hagard, wild, from Old French, wild hawk, raptor, perhaps of Germanic origin.]

hag′gard·ly adv.

hag′gard·ness n.

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haggard

(ˈhæɡəd)

adj

1. careworn or gaunt, as from lack of sleep, anxiety, or starvation

2. wild or unruly

3. (Falconry) (of a hawk) having reached maturity in the wild before being caught

(Falconry) falconry a hawk that has reached maturity before being caught. Compare eyas, passage hawk

[C16: from Old French hagard wild; perhaps related to hedge]

ˈhaggardly adv

ˈhaggardness n

haggard

(ˈhæɡərd)

(Agriculture) (in Ireland and the Isle of Man) an enclosure beside a farmhouse in which crops are stored

[C16: related to Old Norse heygarthr, from hey hay + garthr yard]

Haggard

(ˈhæɡəd)

(Biography) Sir (Henry) Rider. 1856–1925, British author of romantic adventure stories, including King Solomon's Mines (1885)

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hag•gard

(ˈhæg ərd)

adj.

1. gaunt, wasted, or exhausted in appearance, as from prolonged suffering or strain; worn: the haggard faces of refugees.

2. wild; wild-looking.

[1560–70; orig., wild female hawk. See hag¹, -ard]

hag′gard•ly, adv.

hag′gard•ness, n.

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Noun	1.	Haggard - British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925) Rider Haggard, Sir Henry Rider Haggard
Adj.	1.	haggard - 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 careworn, drawn, raddled, worn tired - depleted of strength or energy; "tired mothers with crying babies"; "too tired to eat"
	2.	haggard - very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "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" bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, pinched, skeletal, wasted lean, thin - lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare

haggard

adjective gaunt, wasted, drawn, thin, pinched, wrinkled, ghastly, wan, emaciated, shrunken, careworn, hollow-eyed He was pale and a bit haggard.
fresh, robust, vigorous, energetic, hale, sleek, brisk, bright-eyed

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

haggard

adjective

Pale and exhausted, as because of worry or sleeplessness:

careworn, drawn, gaunt, hollow-eyed, wan, worn.

Translations

هَزيل وَمُنْهَك

ztrhaný

udkørt

abgespannt ausgezehrt verstört wild

hurja

hagard

bijedandivljioronuo

nyúzott

gugginn

smunto stanco aspetto smarrito consunto selvaggio

やつれた

sumenkęs

izvārdzisnomocīts

herjet hulkinnet mager

bitkin

憔悴的

haggard

[ˈhægəd] ADJ (from tiredness) → ojeroso; (= unwell, unhealthy) → demacrado, macilento

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

haggard

[ˈhægə^rd] adj (= drawn, careworn) [person] → exténué(e); [face, features] → défait(e)

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

haggard

adj → ausgezehrt; (from tiredness) → abgespannt; (from worry) → abgehärmt, verhärmt; he had a very haggard expression throughout the trial → er wirkte während der ganzen Verhandlung sehr mitgenommen

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

haggard

[ˈhægəd] adj (careworn) → tirato/a; (gaunt) → smunto/a

haggard

(ˈhӕgəd) adjective

(of a person) looking very tired and thin-faced, because of pain, worry etc. She looked haggard after a sleepless night.

haggard

a. ojeroso-a; desfigurado-a; desaliñado-a.

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TWO Blighted Beings, haggard, lachrymose, and detested, met on a blasted heath in the light of a struggling moon.

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It was then, when the flame was full upon him, that the locksmith saw for the first time how haggard, pale, and changed he looked; how worn and thin he was; how perfectly his whole appearance coincided with all that he had said so strangely as they rode along.

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In the gray of the morning the two students, pallid and haggard from anxiety and with the terror of their adventure still beating tumultuously in their blood, met at the medical college.

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His face was ghastly pale; his chin had a brown cut on it--a cut half healed; his expression was haggard and drawn, as by intense suffering.

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Her face was drawn and pinched, her sweet blue eyes haggard and unnatural.

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After the first day we said little to one another, and lay in our places in the boat and stared at the horizon, or watched, with eyes that grew larger and more haggard every day, the misery and weakness gaining upon our companions.

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The saloonkeeper gazed at him, with his haggard white face and his blue trembling lips.

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After a long silence, the head was lifted for another moment, and the voice replied, "Yes--I am working." This time, a pair of haggard eyes had looked at the questioner, before the face had dropped again.

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He was lounging in a large easy-chair, looking over some letters that had come in the afternoon mail, and she was standing before her mirror, brushing out the complicated braids and curls in which Eliza had arranged her hair; for, noticing her pale cheeks and haggard eyes, she had excused her attendance that night, and ordered her to bed.

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In one corner, with his head buried in his arms, a sailor sprawled over a table, and by the tawdrily painted bar that ran across one complete side stood two haggard women, mocking an old man who was brushing the sleeves of his coat with an expression of disgust.

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Poor Jupiter, haggard, frightened, pale beneath his rouge, dropped his thunderbolt, took his cap in his hand; then he bowed and trembled and stammered: "His eminence--the ambassadors--Madame Marguerite of Flanders--." He did not know what to say.