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sagging 音标拼音: [s'ægɪŋ] ing. 松弛 松弛 sagging adj 1: hanging down ( as from exhaustion or weakness) [ synonym: { drooping}, { droopy}, { sagging}] Sag \ Sag\ ( s[ a^] g), v. i. [ imp. & p. p. { Sagged}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Sagging}.] [ Akin to Sw. sacka to settle, sink down, LG. sacken, D. zakken. Cf. { Sink}, v. i.] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster] 2. 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. [ R.] [ 1913 Webster] The mind I sway by, and the heart I bear, Shall never sag with doubt nor shake with fear. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To loiter in walking; to idle along; to drag or droop heavily. [ 1913 Webster] { To sag to leeward} ( Naut.), to make much leeway by reason of the wind, sea, or current; to drift to leeward; -- said of a vessel. -- Totten. [ 1913 Webster]
Sagging \ Sag" ging\, n. A bending or sinking between the ends of a thing, in consequence of its own, or an imposed, weight; an arching downward in the middle, as of a ship after straining. Cf. { Hogging}. [ 1913 Webster] 111 Moby Thesaurus words for " sagging": abatement, abridgment, alleviation, attenuation, bagging, baggy, ballooning, collapsing, contraction, dampening, damping, debilitated, deciduous, declining, declivitous, decrease, decrement, decrescence, decurrent, deduction, deflation, depreciation, depression, descendant, descending, diminishment, diminution, down, down- reaching, downcoming, downfalling, downgoing, downhill, downsinking, downward, drooping, droopy, dropping, dying, dying off, enervated, enfeebled, extenuation, fade- out, fagged, faint, fainting, falling, fatigued, feeling faint, flagging, floppy, footsore, frazzled, good and tired, jaded, languid, languishment, lessening, letup, limp, loose, lop, lop- eared, loppy, lowering, miniaturization, mitigation, nodding, on the descendant, on the downgrade, plummeting, plunging, ready to drop, reduction, relaxation, run ragged, run- down, sagging in folds, saggy, scaling down, seedy, setting, simplicity, sinking, submerging, subsiding, subtraction, swag, tired, tired- winged, toilworn, tottering, tumbledown, unrefreshed, unrestored, way- weary, wayworn, weak, weakened, weakening, wearied, weariful, weary, weary- footed, weary- laden, weary- winged, weary- worn, wilting, worn, worn- down
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