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straggling
strag·gle S0788900 (străg′əl)intr.v. strag·gled, strag·gling, strag·gles 1. a. To move or proceed slowly or in a scattered or irregular group: "The millworkers straggled out for lunch" (Carson McCullers).b. To move or lag behind another or others: "Bawling calves straggled after cows" (Jean M. Auel).2. To extend or be spread out: "The willow herb straggled over the heaps of rubble" (George Orwell).3. To hang limply or loosely: "the potbellied man, whose dirty hair straggled to his shoulders" (Stephen King).n. A scattered or disorderly group, as of people or things.
[Middle English straglen, to wander.]
strag′gler n.Thesaurus| Adj. | 1. | straggling - spreading out in different directions; "sprawling handwriting"; "straggling branches"; "straggly hair"rambling, sprawling, stragglyuntidy - not neat and tidy; "careless and untidy in her personal habits"; "an untidy living room"; "untidy and casual about money" |
Translationsstraggling
straggling[′strag·liŋ] (physics) Random variations in some property associated with the passage of ions through matter. straggling
Synonyms for stragglingadj spreading out in different directionsSynonyms- rambling
- sprawling
- straggly
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