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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sag \Sag\ (s[a^]g), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Sagged}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Sagging}.] [Akin to Sw. sacka to settle, sink down, LG.
     sacken, D. zakken. Cf. {Sink}, v. i.]
     1. To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied
        pressure, below a horizontal line or plane; as, a line or
        cable supported by its ends sags, though tightly drawn;


        the floor of a room sags; hence, to lean, give way, or
        settle from a vertical position; as, a building may sag
        one way or another; a door sags on its hinges.
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     2. Fig.: To lose firmness or elasticity; 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. [R.]
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              The mind I sway by, and the heart I bear,
              Shall never sag with doubt nor shake with fear.
                                                    --Shak.
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     3. To loiter in walking; to idle along; to drag or droop
        heavily.
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     {To sag to leeward} (Naut.), to make much leeway by reason of
        the wind, sea, or current; to drift to leeward; -- said of
        a vessel. --Totten.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sagging \Sag"ging\, n.
     A bending or sinking between the ends of a thing, in
     consequence of its own, or an imposed, weight; an arching
     downward in the middle, as of a ship after straining. Cf.
     {Hogging}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sag
       n : a shape that sags; "there was a sag in the chair seat" [syn:
            {droop}]
       v 1: droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss
            of tautness [syn: {droop}, {swag}, {flag}]
       2: cause to sag; "The children sagged their bottoms down even
          more comfortably" [syn: {sag down}]
       [also: {sagging}, {sagged}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sagging
       adj : hanging down (as from exhaustion or weakness) [syn: {drooping},
              {droopy}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sagging
       See {sag}

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  111 Moby Thesaurus words for "sagging":
     abatement, abridgment, alleviation, attenuation, bagging, baggy,
     ballooning, collapsing, contraction, dampening, damping,
     debilitated, deciduous, declining, declivitous, decrease,
     decrement, decrescence, decurrent, deduction, deflation,
     depreciation, depression, descendant, descending, diminishment,
     diminution, down, down-reaching, downcoming, downfalling,
     downgoing, downhill, downsinking, downward, drooping, droopy,
     dropping, dying, dying off, enervated, enfeebled, extenuation,
     fade-out, fagged, faint, fainting, falling, fatigued,
     feeling faint, flagging, floppy, footsore, frazzled,
     good and tired, jaded, languid, languishment, lessening, letup,
     limp, loose, lop, lop-eared, loppy, lowering, miniaturization,
     mitigation, nodding, on the descendant, on the downgrade,
     plummeting, plunging, ready to drop, reduction, relaxation,
     run ragged, run-down, sagging in folds, saggy, scaling down, seedy,
     setting, simplicity, sinking, submerging, subsiding, subtraction,
     swag, tired, tired-winged, toilworn, tottering, tumbledown,
     unrefreshed, unrestored, way-weary, wayworn, weak, weakened,
     weakening, wearied, weariful, weary, weary-footed, weary-laden,
     weary-winged, weary-worn, wilting, worn, worn-down
  
  

















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