单词 | straggle |
释义 | straggle (strægəl ) Word forms: straggles , straggling , straggled 1. verb If people straggle somewhere, they move there slowly, in small groups with large, irregular gaps between them. They came straggling up the cliff road. [VERB preposition/adverb] The other boys straggled away, some to their work in the kitchen, some to the great hall. [VERB preposition/adverb] Synonyms: trail, drift, wander, range 2. verb If a small quantity of things straggle over an area, they cover it in an uneven or untidy way. Her grey hair straggled in wisps about her face. [VERB preposition] They were beyond the last straggling suburbs now. [VERB-ing] Synonyms: hang (down), trail, dangle, sag |
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