flagging
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
flagging
adj 1: weak from exhaustion [syn: {drooping}, {flagging}]
n 1: flagstones collectively; "there was a pile of flagging
waiting to be laid in place"
2: a walk of flagstones; "the flagging in the garden was quite
imaginative"
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Flag \Flag\ (fl[a^]g), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Flagged} (fl[a^]gd);
p. pr. & vb. n. {Flagging} (fl[a^]g"g[i^]ng).] [Cf. Icel.
flaka to droop, hang loosely. Cf. {Flacker}, {Flag} an
ensign.]
1. To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible
bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.
[1913 Webster]
As loose it [the sail] flagged around the mast. --T.
Moore.
[1913 Webster]
2. To droop; to grow spiritless; to lose vigor; to languish;
as, the spirits flag; the strength flags.
[1913 Webster]
The pleasures of the town begin to flag. --Swift.
Syn: To droop; decline; fail; languish; pine.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
132 Moby Thesaurus words for "flagging":
ambling, cautious, circumspect, claudicant, coming apart, cracking,
crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, crumbling, debilitated,
decadent, declining, degenerate, deliberate, deteriorating,
disintegrating, draining, drooping, droopy, dwindling, easy,
ebbing, effete, enervated, enfeebled, fading, fagged, failing,
faint, fainting, falling, faltering, fatigued, feeling faint,
foot-dragging, footsore, fragmenting, frazzled, gentle,
going to pieces, good and tired, gradual, halting, hobbled,
hobbling, idle, indolent, jaded, languid, languishing, languorous,
lazy, leisurely, limping, lumbering, marcescent, moderate, pining,
poking, poky, ready to drop, regressive, relaxed, reluctant,
retrograde, retrogressive, run ragged, run-down, sagging,
sauntering, seedy, shriveling, shuffling, sinking, slack, sliding,
slipping, slothful, slow, slow as death, slow as molasses,
slow as slow, slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged,
slow-moving, slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing,
slow-stepped, sluggish, slumping, snail-paced, snaillike,
staggering, strolling, subsiding, tabetic, tentative, tired,
tired-winged, toddling, toilworn, tortoiselike, tottering,
trudging, turtlelike, unhurried, unrefreshed, unrestored, waddling,
waning, wasting, way-weary, wayworn, weak, weakened, wearied,
weariful, weary, weary-footed, weary-laden, weary-winged,
weary-worn, wilting, withering, worn, worn-down, worsening
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