A gradual descent into a haggard and feeble state.

The years of hardship made her look somewhat haggard.

Staring his eyes, and haggard was his look.

I looked at the morning / After being up all night / I looked at my haggard face in the bathroom light / I looked out the window / And I saw that ragged soul take flight

By the end of two weeks there isn't a county in England where he hasn't pledged his holiness six different ways — which is not to deny that intermittently he has visions of himself as a haggard apostle of the life renounced, converting beautiful women and millionaires to Christian poverty.

1856, John Henry Walsh, Manual of British Rural Sports
HAGGARDS may be trapped in this country but with the square-net, or the bow-net, but in either case great difficulty is experienced

In a dark Grott the baleful Haggard lay,
Breathing black Vengeance, and infecting Day

He tuk a slew [swerve] round the haggard http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/fulltext/am1924/pt_s.htm

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