lag
/læɡ/ verb C2- To fail to keep up (the pace), to fall behind.
- To cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material.
- To respond slowly. · My phone is starting to lag.
- To arrest or apprehend.
- To slacken · Interest in the scandal will never lag.
He/she/it lags · Past lagged · Past participle lagged · -ing form lagging
Verb forms
- Base form
- lag
- He/she/it
- lags
- Past
- lagged
- Past participle
- lagged
- -ing form
- lagging
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Even Anne and Gilbert lagged and grew indifferent.
Lynde wanted to know what else you could expect with a Tory superintendent of education at the head of affairs, and Matthew, noting Anne’s paleness and indifference and the lagging steps that bore her home from the post office every afternoon, began seriously to wonder if he hadn’t better vote Grit at the next election.
He can lag us over this stone."
They lagged behind, while Elizabeth, Kitty, and Darcy were to entertain each other.
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