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Flagging

adjective

Weak from exhaustion. Synonym: drooping.

noun

Flagstones collectively.

A walk of flagstones.

Flag

verb

(past & past part. flagged; pres. part. flagging)

Communicate or signal with a flag.

Provide with a flag.

Droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness. Synonyms: droop, sag, swag.

Decorate with flags.

Become less intense. Synonyms: ease off, ease up, slacken off.

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"Flagging" Quotes from Famous Books

... harshly conceived, or psychologically impossible even, in the suddenness of the change wrought in her, as Claudio welcomes for a moment the chance of life through her compliance with Angelo's will, and he may have a sense here of flagging skill, as in words less finely handled than in the preceding scene. The play, though still not without traces of nobler handiwork, sinks down, as we know, at last into almost homely comedy, and it might be supposed ...

— Appreciations, with an Essay on Style • Walter Horatio Pater

... Carl, "to tire themselves at the beginning of the journey! But they're racing in earnest—that's certain. Halloo! Peter's flagging!" ...

— Hans Brinker - or The Silver Skates • Mary Mapes Dodge

... must I plunge again into the crowd, And follow all that Peace disdains to seek? Where Revel calls, and Laughter, vainly loud, False to the heart, distorts the hollow cheek, To leave the flagging spirit doubly weak; Still o'er the features, which perforce they cheer, To feign the pleasure or conceal the pique: Smiles form the channel of a future tear, Or raise the ...

— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 2 • George Gordon Byron

... against a pillar, with one knee bent. Over it was stretched the corpse of a girl, with the face horribly decomposed. The dull and flagging winds of the vault moved her ...

— A Love Story • A Bushman

... by flagging this train?" the brakeman demanded angrily, as he signaled the engineer ...

— The Go-Getter • Peter B. Kyne

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