Sag

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  • intransitive verb. To sink, droop, or settle from pressure or weight.
  • intransitive verb. To lose vigor, firmness, or resilience.
  • intransitive verb. To decline, as in value or price.
  • intransitive verb. To drift to leeward.
  • intransitive verb. To wear one's pants with the waist below the hips, so that one's underwear is visible.
  • intransitive verb. To cause to sag.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The act or an instance of sagging.
  • noun. The degree or extent to which something sags.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A sagging or drooping part or area.
  • noun. A sunken area of land; a depression.
  • noun. A sagging area; a depression.
  • noun. A decline, as in monetary value.
  • noun. A drift to leeward.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A bending or drooping, as of a rope that is fastened at its extremities, or of a surface; droop.
  • Heavy; loaded; weighed down.
  • noun. In railroad construction, a depression in the grade of a road; the meeting of a down grade with an up grade. An abrupt sag is objectionable, owing to the varying strains upon the cars of a train passing it, the cars on the up grade being pulled apart and those on the down grade being pressed together, the strains being reversed as each car passes the lowest point of the sag.
  • noun. A depression in a crest-line or divide.
  • To droop, especially in the middle; settle or sink through weakness or lack of support.
  • Hence To yield under the pressure of care, difficulties, trouble, doubt, or the like; be depressed.
  • To go about in a careless, slovenly manner or state; slouch.
  • Nautical, to incline to the leeward; make lee-way.
  • To cause to droop or bend in the middle, as by an excessive load or burden: opposed to hog.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. State of sinking or bending; sagging.
  • intransitive verb. To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane; ; hence, to lean, give way, or settle from a vertical position.
  • intransitive verb. Fig.: To lose firmness or elasticity; to sink; to droop; to flag; to bend; to yield, as the mind or spirits, under the pressure of care, trouble, doubt, or the like; to be unsettled or unbalanced.
  • intransitive verb. To loiter in walking; to idle along; to drag or droop heavily.
  • intransitive verb. to make much leeway by reason of the wind, sea, or current; to drift to leeward; -- said of a vessel.
  • transitive verb. To cause to bend or give way; to load.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The state of sinking or bending; sagging.
  • noun. The difference in elevation of a wire, cable, chain or rope suspended between two consecutive points.
  • noun. The difference height or depth between the vertex and the rim of a curved surface, specifically used for optical elements such as a mirror or lens.
  • verb. To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane; as, a line or cable supported by its ends sags, though tightly drawn; the floor of a room sags; hence, to lean, give way, or settle from a vertical position; as, a building may sag one way or another; a door sags on its hinges.
  • verb. To lose firmness, elasticity, vigor, or a thriving state; to sink; to droop; to flag; to bend; to yield, as the mind or spirits, under the pressure of care, trouble, doubt, or the like; to be unsettled or unbalanced.
  • verb. To loiter in walking; to idle along; to drag or droop heavily.
  • verb. To cause to bend or give way; to load.
  • verb. To wear one's trousers so that their top is well below the waist.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. cause to sag
  • noun. a shape that sags
  • verb. droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness
  • Word Usage
    "Incidentally, Lloyd, why do you call the sag-faced moron 'Gordon' when you refer to Dave as 'Cameron' and Clegg as 'Clegg'."
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    Ag  Bragg  ag  bag  bagge  
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    abate  ablate  arch  bag  basin  
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    sagged  sagging  
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