| 单词 | straggle |
| 释义 | straggle (once / 792 pages) vn To straggle is to wander in an indirect, meandering way. Lions often go for the small antelopes that straggle behind the herd. To straggle is to veer from a route, or to wander aimlessly behind everyone else. If you plan to go to the movies but end up at a store and then a friend's house, you straggled. Straggling is a type of digressing — to straggle is to get sidetracked. In the military, straggling often means to stay on leave too long or be in the wrong position for a battle. When people straggle, they've gone off-course. WORD FAMILYstraggle: straggled, straggler, straggles, straggling, straggly+/straggler: stragglers/straggling: stragglingly USAGE EXAMPLESAfter the San Jose rally in early June, protesters bullied and spat on straggling Trump supporters. The New Yorker(Jul 04, 2016) In these senses, Torres-García, who became a cantankerous old man in a straggling white beard and a long overcoat, was a model Latin American. Economist(Oct 20, 2016) That very day, three Sudanese migrants had straggled into Breil’s tiny town hall. New York Times(Oct 04, 2016) 1v wander from a direct or straight course Syn|Hyper depart, digress, sidetrack deviate, divert turn aside; turn away from 2v go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way Branches straggling out quite far Syn|Hyper sprawl distribute, spread distribute or disperse widely 3n a wandering or disorderly grouping (of things or persons) a straggle of outbuildings a straggle of followers Hyper group, grouping any number of entities (members) considered as a unit |
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