zigzag
/ˈzɪɡ.zæɡ/ verb C2- To move or to twist in a zigzag manner.
He/she/it zigzags · Past zigzagged · Past participle zigzagged · -ing form zigzagging
Verb forms
- Base form
- zigzag
- He/she/it
- zigzags
- Past
- zigzagged
- Past participle
- zigzagged
- -ing form
- zigzagging
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
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She had just succeeded in curving it down into a graceful zigzag, and was going to dive in among the leaves, which she found to be nothing but the tops of the trees under which she had been wandering, when a sharp hiss made her draw back in a hurry: a large pigeon had flown into her face, and was beating her violently with its wings.
His grey clothes and jerky, zigzag, irregular progress made him not unlike some huge moth himself.
From the end of it a small wand planted here and there showed where the path zigzagged from tuft to tuft of rushes among those green-scummed pits and foul quagmires which barred the way to the stranger.
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