straggle
verb /ˈstræɡl/
/ˈstræɡl/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they straggle | /ˈstræɡl/ /ˈstræɡl/ |
| he / she / it straggles | /ˈstræɡlz/ /ˈstræɡlz/ |
| past simple straggled | /ˈstræɡld/ /ˈstræɡld/ |
| past participle straggled | /ˈstræɡld/ /ˈstræɡld/ |
| -ing form straggling | /ˈstræɡlɪŋ/ /ˈstræɡlɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive] (+ adv./prep.) to grow, spread or move in an untidy way in different directions
- Her hair was straggling over her eyes.
- The town straggled to an end and the fields began.
- [intransitive] (+ adv./prep.) to move slowly behind a group of people that you are with so that you become separated from them
- On the way the kids straggled behind us.
Word Originlate Middle English: perhaps from dialect strake ‘go’.