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sagging
Word definitions for sagging in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Sagging may refer to: Sagging (fashion) , a fashion trend for wearing pants below the waist to expose one's underwear Sagging (Naval) , the stress a ship is put under when it passes over the trough of a wave Ptosis (breasts) , the laxing of breast's structures ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.] To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane; ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness [syn: droop , swag , flag ] cause to sag; "The children sagged their bottoms down even more comfortably" [syn: sag down ] [also: sagging , sagged ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of something that sags. 2 A manner of wearing pants or shorts below the waist, revealing some or all of the underwear. vb. (present participle of sag English)
Usage examples of sagging.
The eyes were still there, behind sagging lids, the teeth visible behind the drooping lips.
She was thinking of seeing the long, sagging bodies of the security guards being dragged away by their arms and feet, to be buried in some shallow, unmarked grave in the wet, lonely hills.
I fixed that thought in my heart to prop up my sagging enthusiasm for the task and left the tower top.
His flesh barely coated his bones, and his scaled skin was tattered and sagging like badly sewn garments.
Her hands are red, but the sagging flesh upon her arms has the hue and polish of ivory.
Strength sagging, Adira laid back on pine needles and watched stars wink on in a perfect autumn night.
Pete managed a croak, his limbs sagging as he gaped at the knife handle protruding from his chest.
He wore a gray business suit, double-breasted, with enormous sagging lapels.
The man who called himself Bors realized as he listened that his mouth was sagging open.
The prisoner in the fancy coat was sagging against the iron grille of his cell, his belt looped around the bars and then around his neck.
A three-foot-high picket fence, sagging in places, separated the scraggly, minuscule patch of lawn from the broken sidewalk.
The headless thing draped across the casket did not move, save to shrivel slightly, sagging down with a faint sound that might have been a moan of disappointment .
Hawkril time to dive aside, and the healer time to throw himself facedown behind its groaning, sagging branches.
Embra was half sitting, half sagging among the carvings along the ornate balcony rail, a trickle of blood falling from her open mouth.
Metal pegs were screwed into the wall for clothes, with a sagging pink curtain that pulled across to hide them.