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sagsag /sæɡ/ verb (past tense and past participle sagged, present participle sagging) [intransitive] sagOrigin: 1300-1400 Probably from a Scandinavian language VERB TABLEsag |
Present | I, you, we, they | sag | | he, she, it | sags | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | sagged | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have sagged | | he, she, it | has sagged | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had sagged | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will sag | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have sagged |
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Present | I | am sagging | | he, she, it | is sagging | | you, we, they | are sagging | Past | I, he, she, it | was sagging | | you, we, they | were sagging | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been sagging | | he, she, it | has been sagging | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been sagging | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be sagging | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been sagging |
- 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.
- 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.
► sagging morale (=when people are getting less confident and positive)· He did his best to boost the sagging morale of the civil service. ► somebody’s shoulders slump/droop/sag (=move downwards because they are sad or tired)· ‘You 're right,’ he sighed, his shoulders drooping. ► your skin sags (=it hangs down in loose folds, because you are old)· The skin on her arms was already starting to sag. ADVERB► back· 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 economy—sag noun [countable, uncountable]: a sag in the mattress |