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verb (used without object)
1.
to sink or bend downward by weight or pressure, especially in the middle: The roof sags.
2.
to hang down unevenly; droop: Her skirt was sagging.
3.
to droop; hang loosely: His shoulders sagged.
4.
to yield through weakness, lack of effort, or the like: Our spirits began to sag.
5.
EXPANDto decline, as in price: The stock market sagged today.
verb (used with object)
7.
to cause to sag.
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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noun
8.
an act or instance of sagging.
9.
the degree of sagging.
10.
a place where anything sags; depression.
11.
a moderate decline in prices.
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Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English saggen (v.), probably < Scandinavian; compare Norwegian sagga to move slowly (akin to Low German sacken to sink, Norwegian, Danish sakke, Swedish sacka, Icelandic sakka to slow up, fall behind)
1375–1425; late Middle English saggen (v.), probably < Scandinavian; compare Norwegian sagga to move slowly (akin to Low German sacken to sink, Norwegian, Danish sakke, Swedish sacka, Icelandic sakka to slow up, fall behind)
Related forms
an·ti·sag, adjective
un·sag·ging, adjective
Synonyms
4. weaken, flag, tire, weary.
4. weaken, flag, tire, weary.
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Word Origin & History
sag
1392, possibly from a Scand. source related to O.N. sokkva "to sink," or from M.L.G. sacken "to sink" (as dregs in wine), from denasalized derivative of P.Gmc. base *senkwanan "to sink" (see sink). A general North Sea Gmc. word (cf. Du. zakken, Swed. sacka, Dan. sakke). The
EXPANDnoun is first recorded 1861.
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