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sagging

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sag  (sg)
v. sagged, sag·ging, sags
v.intr.
1. To sink, droop, or settle from pressure or weight.
2. To lose vigor, firmness, or resilience: My spirits sagged after I had been rejected for the job.
3. To decline, as in value or price: Stock prices sagged after a short rally.
4. Nautical To drift to leeward.
v.tr.
To cause to sag.
n.
1.
a. The act or an instance of sagging.
b. The degree or extent to which something sags.
2. A sagging area; a depression.
3. A temporary decline in monetary value.
4. Nautical A drift to leeward.

[Middle English saggen, probably of Scandinavian origin; akin to Swedish sacka, to sink.]

saggy adj.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.sagging - hanging down (as from exhaustion or weakness)
lax - lacking in strength or firmness or resilience; "a lax rope"; "a limp handshake"
Translations
sagging [ˈsægɪŋ] ADJ [ground] → hundido; [beam] → combado; [cheek] → fofo; [rope] → flojo; [gate, hemline, breasts] → caído; [shoulders] → encorvado
sagging
adj
ceiling, beam, ropedurchhängend; armchairdurchgesessen
skinschlaff; sagging stomach/bosom/cheeksHängebauch m/-busen m/-backen pl
(fig) moralesinkend; a drink will revive his sagging spiritsein Drink wird seine Stimmung wieder heben
sagging [ˈsægɪŋ] adj (ceiling) → incurvato/a; (rope) → allentato/a; (breasts) → cadente (fig) (spirits) → a terra
sagging [ˈsægɪŋ] adj (ceiling) → incurvato/a; (rope) → allentato/a; (breasts) → cadente (fig) (spirits) → a terra


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For a few seconds Mimi saw it as it rushed along the sagging line to the kite.
It is a lengthy business and rather dangerous, for the long, sagging line may twitch a boat under in a flash.
Then Daylight, urged on by Dede's solicitude, uttered a low threatening cry; and Wolf, drooping and sagging in all the body of him in token of his instant return to man's allegiance, slunk off behind the barn.
 
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