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flagging

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flag·ging 1  (flgng)
adj.
1. Declining; weakening: flagging strength.
2. Languid; drooping.
flagging·ly adv.
flag·ging 2  (flgng)
n.
A pavement laid with flagstones.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.flagging - flagstones collectively; "there was a pile of flagging waiting to be laid in place"
aggregation, collection, accumulation, assemblage - several things grouped together or considered as a whole
2.flagging - a walk of flagstones; "the flagging in the garden was quite imaginative"
paseo, walkway, walk - a path set aside for walking; "after the blizzard he shoveled the front walk"
Adj.1.flagging - weak from exhaustion
drooping
tired - depleted of strength or energy; "tired mothers with crying babies"; "too tired to eat"
flagging
adjective weakening, failing, declining, waning, giving up, tiring, sinking, fading, decreasing, slowing down, deteriorating, wearying, faltering, wilting, ebbing


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He was reading a book, and thinking of what he was reading, and stopping to listen to Agafea Mihalovna, who gossiped away without flagging, and yet with all that, all sorts of pictures of family life and work in the future rose disconnectedly before his imagination.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
The huge round pillars were intact; so to some extent was the stone flagging of hall and portico.
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Passepartout, however, thinking no harm, went in like a simple tourist, and was soon lost in admiration of the splendid Brahmin ornamentation which everywhere met his eyes, when of a sudden he found himself sprawling on the sacred flagging.
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