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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

flagging
    adj 1: weak from exhaustion [syn: drooping, flagging]
    n 1: flagstones collectively; "there was a pile of flagging
         waiting to be laid in place"
    2: a walk of flagstones; "the flagging in the garden was quite
       imaginative"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Flag \Flag\ (fl[a^]g), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flagged (fl[a^]gd);
   p. pr. & vb. n. Flagging (fl[a^]g"g[i^]ng).] [Cf. Icel.
   flaka to droop, hang loosely. Cf. Flacker, Flag an
   ensign.]
   1. To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible
      bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.
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            As loose it [the sail] flagged around the mast. --T.
                                                  Moore.
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   2. To droop; to grow spiritless; to lose vigor; to languish;
      as, the spirits flag; the strength flags.
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            The pleasures of the town begin to flag. --Swift.

   Syn: To droop; decline; fail; languish; pine.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Flagging \Flag"ging\, n.
   A pavement or sidewalk of flagstones; flagstones,
   collectively.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Flagging \Flag"ging\, a.
   Growing languid, weak, or spiritless; weakening; delaying. --
   Flag"ging*ly, adv.
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Thesaurus Results for Flagging:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

ambling, cautious, circumspect, claudicant, coming apart, cracking, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, crumbling, debilitated, decadent, declining, degenerate, deliberate, deteriorating, disintegrating, draining, drooping, droopy, dwindling, easy, ebbing, effete, enervated, enfeebled, fading, fagged, failing, faint, fainting, falling, faltering, fatigued, feeling faint, foot-dragging, footsore, fragmenting, frazzled, gentle, going to pieces, good and tired, gradual, halting, hobbled, hobbling, idle, indolent, jaded, languid, languishing, languorous, lazy, leisurely, limping, lumbering, marcescent, moderate, pining, poking, poky, ready to drop, regressive, relaxed, reluctant, retrograde, retrogressive, run ragged, run-down, sagging, sauntering, seedy, shriveling, shuffling, sinking, slack, sliding, slipping, slothful, slow, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow, slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving, slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped, sluggish, slumping, snail-paced, snaillike, staggering, strolling, subsiding, tabetic, tentative, tired, tired-winged, toddling, toilworn, tortoiselike, tottering, trudging, turtlelike, unhurried, unrefreshed, unrestored, waddling, waning, wasting, way-weary, wayworn, weak, weakened, wearied, weariful, weary, weary-footed, weary-laden, weary-winged, weary-worn, wilting, withering, worn, worn-down, worsening

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