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HAGGARD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925)
Synonyms:
Haggard; Rider Haggard; Sir Henry Rider Haggard
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
Example:
kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration
Synonyms:
cadaverous; emaciated; gaunt; haggard; pinched; skeletal; wasted
Classified under:
Similar:
lean; thin (lacking excess flesh)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering
Example:
shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face
Synonyms:
careworn; drawn; haggard; raddled; worn
Classified under:
Similar:
tired (depleted of strength or energy)
Context examples:
Morning found the man haggard and worn, wide-eyed from want of sleep.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
She has a peculiar face; fleshless and haggard as it is, I rather like it; and when in good health and animated, I can fancy her physiognomy would be agreeable.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Anne haggard, Mary coarse, every face in the neighbourhood worsting, and the rapid increase of the crow's foot about Lady Russell's temples had long been a distress to him.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
His thin, thought-worn features and sunken, haggard cheeks bespoke one who had indeed beaten down that inner foe whom every man must face, but had none the less suffered sorely in the contest.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was a smile that had in it something both of pain and weakness—a haggard old man's smile; but there was, besides that, a grain of derision, a shadow of treachery, in his expression as he craftily watched, and watched, and watched me at my work.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
A great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven, but the wind was continually charging and routing these embattled vapours; so that as the cab crawled from street to street, Mr. Utterson beheld a marvelous number of degrees and hues of twilight; for here it would be dark like the back-end of evening; and there would be a glow of a rich, lurid brown, like the light of some strange conflagration; and here, for a moment, the fog would be quite broken up, and a haggard shaft of daylight would glance in between the swirling wreaths.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
She is still too pale, but does not look so haggard as she did this morning.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
And as I faced him, with levelled gun shaking in my hands, I had time to note the worn and haggard appearance of his face.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Her features and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Her rich tints made the white face of her companion the more worn and haggard by the contrast.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
