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sag
sag is a 3-letter English word with 8 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
3 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 5 · 8 senses
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- 1intransitive verb
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.
- 2intransitive verb
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.
- 3intransitive verb
To loiter in walking; to idle along; to drag or droop heavily.
- 4transitive verb
To cause to bend or give way; to load.
- 5noun
State of sinking or bending; sagging.
- 6noun
a shape that sags
"there was a sag in the chair seat"
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- 7verb
droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness
- 8verb
cause to sag
"The children sagged their bottoms down even more comfortably"
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