Dictionary Entry
straggle
straggle is a 8-letter English word with 8 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To wander from the direct course or way; to rove; to stray; to wander from the line of march or desert the line of battle; as, when troops are on the march, the men should not straggle. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 13 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To wander from the direct course or way; to rove; to stray; to wander from the line of march or desert the line of battle; as, when troops are on the march, the men should not straggle.
- 2transitive verb
To wander at large; to roam idly about; to ramble.
- 3transitive verb
To escape or stretch beyond proper limits, as the branches of a plant; to spread widely apart; to shoot too far or widely in growth.
- 4transitive verb
To be dispersed or separated; to occur at intervals.
- 5noun
The act of straggling.
- 6noun
a wandering or disorderly grouping (of things or persons)
"a straggle of outbuildings"
"a straggle of followers"
- 7verb
go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way
"Branches straggling out quite far"
Synonyms
- 8verb
wander from a direct or straight course
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