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List of meaning for haggard

appearing in poor health or spirits

Haggard, Rider Haggard, Sir Henry Rider Haggard(adj)

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

careworn, drawn, haggard, raddled, worn(adj)

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

bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted(adj)

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"

suffering extreme weight loss as a result of hunger or disease

the rescued hiker appeared haggard and worn after a week in the woods

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