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stragglestraggle /ˈstrægəl/ verb [intransitive usually + adv./prep.] VERB TABLEstraggle |
Present | I, you, we, they | straggle | | he, she, it | straggles | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | straggled | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have straggled | | he, she, it | has straggled | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had straggled | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will straggle | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have straggled |
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Present | I | am straggling | | he, she, it | is straggling | | you, we, they | are straggling | Past | I, he, she, it | was straggling | | you, we, they | were straggling | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been straggling | | he, she, it | has been straggling | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been straggling | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be straggling | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been straggling |
1if members of a group straggle somewhere, they move at different speeds, so that there are large spaces between them: straggle in/into/toward etc. Students were beginning to straggle in from lunch.2to move, grow, or spread out in a messy way in different directions |