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Flagging   /flˈægɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Flagging  n.  A pavement or sidewalk of flagstones; flagstones, collectively.


verb
Flag  v. t.  
1.
To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness; as, to flag the wings.
2.
To enervate; to exhaust the vigor or elasticity of. "Nothing so flags the spirits."


Flag  v. t.  
1.
To signal to with a flag or by waving the hand; as, to flag a train; also used with down; as, to flag down a cab.
2.
To convey, as a message, by means of flag signals; as, to flag an order to troops or vessels at a distance.
3.
To decoy (game) by waving a flag, handkerchief, or the like to arouse the animal's curiosity. "The antelope are getting continually shyer and more difficult to flag."


Flag  v. t.  To furnish or deck out with flags.


Flag  v. t.  To lay with flags of flat stones. "The sides and floor are all flagged with... marble."


Flag  v. i.  (past & past part. flagged; pres. part. flagging)  
1.
To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp. "As loose it (the sail) flagged around the mast."
2.
To droop; to grow spiritless; to lose vigor; to languish; as, the spirits flag; the strength flags. "The pleasures of the town begin to flag."
Synonyms: To droop; decline; fail; languish; pine.


adjective
Flagging  adj.  Growing languid, weak, or spiritless; weakening; delaying.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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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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