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单词 sag
释义
sagsag /sæɡ/ verb (past tense and past participle sagged, present participle sagging) [intransitive] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINsag
Origin:
1300-1400 Probably from a Scandinavian language
Verb Table
VERB TABLE
sag
Simple Form
PresentI, you, we, theysag
he, she, itsags
PastI, you, he, she, it, we, theysagged
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave sagged
he, she, ithas sagged
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad sagged
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill sag
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have sagged
Continuous Form
PresentIam sagging
he, she, itis sagging
you, we, theyare sagging
PastI, he, she, itwas sagging
you, we, theywere sagging
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave been sagging
he, she, ithas been sagging
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad been sagging
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill be sagging
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have been sagging
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Edberg seemed to sag after losing the second set.
  • His whole body seemed to sag with relief.
  • Stock prices sagged again today.
  • The shelves sagged under the weight of hundreds of records and CDs.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Benjy sat on his sagging back steps with six-year-old Louis Klubock, who lived next door.
  • He sagged back against the wall, and held out his hand.
  • Once, when morale was sagging, a visibly pregnant IsabelIa rode up to cheer the troops.
  • She turned and saw that the table sagged in the middle.
  • There was a wide, cobbled enclosure, flanked on all sides by sagging black buildings.
  • Your face will be more likely to have a dull complexion, with podgy, sagging cheeks and double chin.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(=when people are getting less confident and positive)· He did his best to boost the sagging morale of the civil service.
(=move downwards because they are sad or tired)· ‘You 're right,’ he sighed, his shoulders drooping.
(=it hangs down in loose folds, because you are old)· The skin on her arms was already starting to sag.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB
· He sagged back against the wall, and held out his hand.· With the years, the centers of such graves sag back to the ground.· Her head sags back against the pillow.· Ezra sagged back in his seat.· Instead, he sagged back in his chair and took no further action.· The parrot turned into an owl: Capshaw sagged back down into his chair.· I sagged back against the kitchen counter.· Some of the porch floorboards had rotted through and the steps sagged back against the house.
1to hang down or bend in the middle, especially because of the weight of something SYN  droop:  The branch sagged under the weight of the apples. The skin around my eyes is starting to sag. a sagging roof2to become weaker or less valuable OPP  flourish:  attempts to revive the sagging economysag noun [countable, uncountable]:  a sag in the mattress
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