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hag·gard  audio  (hgrd) KEY 

ADJECTIVE:
    1. Appearing worn and exhausted; gaunt.
    2. Wild or distraught in appearance.
  2. Wild and intractable. Used of a hawk in falconry.
NOUN:
An adult hawk captured for training.
ETYMOLOGY:
French hagard, wild, from Old French, wild hawk, raptor, perhaps of Germanic origin

OTHER FORMS:
haggard·ly(Adverb), haggard·ness(Noun)


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