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English
Etymology
From crag + -ed.
Adjective
cragged (comparative more cragged, superlative most cragged)
- Having crags
1658, Isaac Barrow, Sermons on Evil-Speaking:Is not the plain way more easy than the rough and cragged? is not the fair way more pleasant and passable than the foul?
1834, Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, The Last Days of Pompeii:Over the broadest there seemed to spring a cragged and stupendous arch, from which, as from the jaws of hell, gushed the sources of the sudden Phlegethon.
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