SAG (sagged, sagging)

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Irregular inflected forms: sagged    , sagging   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does sag mean? 

• SAG (noun)
  The noun SAG has 1 sense:

1. a shape that sags

  Familiarity information: SAG used as a noun is very rare.

• SAG (verb)
  The verb SAG has 2 senses:

1. droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness

2. cause to sag

  Familiarity information: SAG used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SAG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A shape that sags

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Synonyms:

droop; sag

Context example:

there was a sag in the chair seat

Hypernyms ("sag" is a kind of...):

depression; impression; imprint (a concavity in a surface produced by pressing)

Derivation:

sag (droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness)

sag (cause to sag)

• SAG (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they sag    ... he / she / it sags   
Past simple: sagged   
Past participle: sagged   
-ing form: sagging   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

droop; flag; sag; swag

Hypernyms (to "sag" is one way to...):

drop; drop down; sink (fall or descend to a lower place or level)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "sag"):

slouch; slump (assume a drooping posture or carriage)

bag (hang loosely, like an empty bag)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Sentence examples:

The children sag in the rocking chair
There sag some children in the rocking chair

Derivation:

sag (a shape that sags)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cause to sag

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

sag; sag down

Context example:

The children sagged their bottoms down even more comfortably

Hypernyms (to "sag" is one way to...):

drop; drop down; sink (fall or descend to a lower place or level)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

sag (a shape that sags)

 Context examples 

The halyards slackened, and, though it all happened very quickly, I could see them sag beneath the weight of his body.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The sagging valley floor lowered part of the rim of the Rembrandt basin as well.

(‘Great Valley’ Found on Mercury, NASA)

A stout man, with a red sweater that sagged generously at the neck, came out and signed the book for the driver.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Some of the most common body parts people want to improve through surgery include: • Breasts: Increase or reduce the size of breasts or reshape sagging breasts • Ears: Reduce the size of large ears or set protruding ears back closer to the head • Eyes: Correct drooping upper eyelids or remove puffy bags below the eyes • Face: Remove facial wrinkles, creases or acne scars • Hair: Fill in balding areas with one's own hair • Nose: Change the shape of the nose • Tummy: Flatten the abdomen

(Plastic and Cosmetic Surgery, NIH)

Martin glanced at her and verified her statement in her general slovenly appearance, in the unhealthy fat, in the drooping shoulders, the tired face with the sagging lines, and in the heavy fall of her feet, without elasticity—a very caricature of the walk that belongs to a free and happy body.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

His body was sagging at the hips, his great shoulders were drooping and shrinking forward.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Crustal rocks were thrust upward while the emerging valley floor sagged downward.

(‘Great Valley’ Found on Mercury, NASA)

And while Martin told him, he was busy studying Brissenden, ranging from a long, lean, aristocratic face and drooping shoulders to the overcoat on a neighboring chair, its pockets sagged and bulged by the freightage of many books.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The skin roof, stretched tightly as a drumhead, I had thought, sagged and bellied with every gust; and innumerable interstices in the walls, not so tightly stuffed with moss as Maud had supposed, disclosed themselves.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)