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sag

Pronunciation: /sæɡ/

The English word “sag” has 16 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. The state of sinking or bending; a droop.
  2. A depression or dip in anything.
  3. A place where the surface of the earth, a mountain range, a ridge, etc., sinks or droops.
  4. The difference in elevation of a wire, cable, chain or rope suspended between two consecutive points.
  5. The difference in height or depth between the vertex and the rim of a curved surface, specifically used for optical elements such as a mirror or lens.
  6. A region or spot where the skin has lost some of its elasticity and droops or hangs down.
  7. A person with sagging skin.

verb

  1. To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane.
  2. To lean, give way, or settle from a vertical position.
  3. To lose firmness, elasticity, vigor, or a thriving state; to sink; to droop; to flag; to bend; to yield, as the mind or spirits, under the pressure of care, trouble, doubt, or the like; to be unsettled or unbalanced.
  4. To fail to sustain interest; to be boring.
  5. To loiter in walking; to idle along; to drag or droop heavily.
  6. To cause to bend or give way; to load.
  7. To wear one's trousers, shorts, etc., so that their top is well below the waist.
  8. To be worn so that the top is well below the waist.
  9. To pull down someone else's pants as a prank.

Etymology

From earlier sag, sagg, sack, from Middle English saggen, probably from Middle Low German sacken (“to sink, drift”), ultimately of North Germanic/Scandinavian/Old Norse origin, akin to Old Norse søkkva (“to sink”), a denasalized derivative of Proto-Germanic *sankwijaną (“to cause to sink”), related to Proto-Germanic *sinkwaną (“to sink”). Cognate with Scots seg (“to sink”), Danish sakke (“to lag…

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