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sag
(săg)v. sagged, sag·ging, sags
v.intr.
1. To sink, droop, or settle from pressure or weight.
2. To lose vigor, firmness, or resilience: My spirits sagged after I had been rejected for the job.
3. To decline, as in value or price: Stock prices sagged after a short rally.
4. Nautical To drift to leeward.
5. To wear one's pants with the waist below the hips, so that one's underwear is visible.
v.tr.
To cause to sag.
n.
1.
a. The act or an instance of sagging.
b. The degree or extent to which something sags.
2.
a. A sagging or drooping part or area: tried to brush out the paint sags.
b. A sunken area of land; a depression.
3. A sagging area; a depression.
4. A decline, as in monetary value.
5. Nautical A drift to leeward.
[Middle English saggen, probably of Scandinavian origin; akin to Swedish sacka, to sink.]
sag′gy adj.
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sag
(sæɡ)vb (mainly intr) , sags, sagging or sagged
1. (also tr) to sink or cause to sink in parts, as under weight or pressure: the bed sags in the middle.
2. to fall in value: prices sagged to a new low.
3. to hang unevenly; droop
4. (of courage, spirits, etc) to weaken; flag
n
5. the act or an instance of sagging: a sag in profits.
6. (Nautical Terms) nautical the extent to which a vessel's keel sags at the centre. Compare hog6, hogged
7. (Physical Geography)
a. a marshy depression in an area of glacial till, chiefly in the US Middle West
b. (as modifier): sag and swell topography.
[C15: from Scandinavian; compare Swedish sacka, Dutch zakken, Norwegian dialect sakka to subside, Danish sakke to lag behind]
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sag
(sæg)v. sagged, sag•ging,
n. v.i.
1. to sink or bend downward by or as if by weight or pressure.
2. to wane in vigor or intensity: Our spirits began to sag.
3. to decline in value: The stock market sagged today.
v.t. 4. to cause to sag.
n. 5. an act or instance of sagging.
6. the degree of sagging.
7. a place where anything sags; depression.
8. a moderate decline in prices.
[1375–1425; late Middle English saggen (v.), probably < Scandinavian; compare Norwegian sagga to move slowly]
SAG
(sæg)n.
Screen Actors Guild.
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sag
Past participle: sagged
Gerund: sagging
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| Noun | 1. |  sag - a shape that sags; "there was a sag in the chair seat"imprint, impression, depression - a concavity in a surface produced by pressing; "he left the impression of his fingers in the soft mud" |
| Verb | 1. | sag - droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness bag - hang loosely, like an empty bag |
| 2. | sag - cause to sag; "The children sagged their bottoms down even more comfortably" |
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sag
verb
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sag
verbnoun
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Translations
يَرْتَخي، يَنْحَني في الوَسَط
prohnout se
bøje ned på midten
svigna
įdubtiįlinkti
ieliektiesnosēstiessakrist
prehnúť sa
ukriviti
bel vermek
sag
[sæg]A. VI [roof, awning etc] → combarse; [bed] → hundirse; [shoulders] → encorvarse; [rope] → aflojarse; [prices] → bajar
his spirits sagged → le flaquearon los ánimos, se desanimó
his spirits sagged → le flaquearon los ánimos, se desanimó
B. N (in roof, ceiling) → combadura f
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
sag
[ˈsæg] vi (= sink in the middle) [mattress, chair] → s'affaisser; [roof, shelf] → s'affaisser
(= droop) [flesh] → pendre
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
sag
n there’s a bit of a sag in the bed/ceiling → das Bett/die Decke hängt etwas durch; the sag of her shoulders → ihre herabhängenden Schultern
vi → absacken; (in the middle) → durchhängen; (shoulders) → herabhängen; (breasts) → schlaff herunterhängen; (production, rate) → zurückgehen; (price, spirit) → sinken; (conversation) → abflauen; don’t sag, stand up straight → steh nicht so schlaff da (inf), → stell dich gerade hin
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
sag
[sæg] vi (hang down, ceiling, awning, bed) → incurvarsi; (breasts) → afflosciarsi; (slacken, rope) → allentarsi (fig) (spirits) → deprimersihis knees sagged → gli hanno ceduto le ginocchia
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
sag
(sӕg) – past tense, past participle sagged – verb to bend, hang down, especially in the middle. There were so many books on the shelf that it sagged.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
sag
v. perder elasticidad, perder la forma; combarse; pandearse; [to weaken] debilitarse.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
sag
vi (pret & pp sagged; ger sagging) caerse; sagging breasts pechos or senos caídosEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.