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Haggard Common

Haggard has 7 different meanings across 3 categories:

Noun · Adjective · Proper Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925)

2

A hunting bird captured as an adult.

3

A stackyard, an enclosure on a farm for stacking grain, hay, etc.

Adjective
1

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"

2

very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold

"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"

3

Looking exhausted, worried, or poor in condition

Proper Noun
1

A surname​.

Example Sentences
"looking careworn as she bent over her mending" adjective
"her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness" adjective
"that raddled but still noble face" adjective
"shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face" adjective
"a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys" adjective
"eyes were haggard and cavernous" adjective
"small pinched faces" adjective
"kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration" adjective
See Also
exhausted skeletal wasted gaunt hunting wild haggardness haggardly
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Rhyming Words
ard card pard sard hard nard fard gard yard ward dard tard bard mard beard heard sward alard izard ecard
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