Sagging

Definition: Sagging

Sagging

Adjective

1. Hanging down (as from exhaustion or weakness).

Date "sagging" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1855. (references)

Domain	Definition
Chemical Industry	Downward movement of a paint film resulting in an uneven coating having a thick lower edge. The resulting sag is usually restricted to a local area of a vertical surface and may have the characteristic appearance of a draped curtain. Source: European Union. (references)
Electrical Engineering	The maximum vertical distance, in a span of an overhead line, between a conductor and the straight line passing through the two points of support of the conductor. Source: European Union. (references)
Industry	Small depressions on the top surface caused by sagging of the glass between the meshes. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Sagging

Synonyms: drooping (adj), droopy (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Sagging

English words defined with "sagging": dipped, double-chinned ♦ flabbily ♦ Hogging ♦ jowly ♦ King-post ♦ loose-jowled, lordotic ♦ swayback, swaybacked. (references)

Etymologies containing "sagging": Sag. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Miss Craig's Face-Saving Exercises: A 6-Day Plan Which Teaches You How to Naturally Lift the Sagging Muscles of the Face. All Exercises Demonstrated b (reference) (more book examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	White House architect Lorenzo Winslow and engineer C.W. Barber, standing next to scaffolding, inspecting the sagging ceiling in the White House East Room. Credit: Library of Congress.		Corning Glass Works, Parkersburg, West Virginia. Sagging operations. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	They walked slowly toward the sagging house
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Marked morphologic changes in all parts of the skin, except perhaps the subcutaneous tissue, are recognized as consequences of exposure to UVR. These changes underlie the clinically observed sagging, wrinkling, leathery texture, and blotchy discoloration of skin typically associated with actinic damage. (references)
		Examples of some abnormalities are decreased perception of rectal sensation, decreased anal canal pressures, decreased squeeze pressure of the anal canal, impaired anal sensation, a dropping down of the rectum (rectal prolapse), protrusion of the rectum through the vagina (rectocele), and/or generalized weakness and sagging of the pelvic floor. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Sagging" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 62.89% of the time. "Sagging" is used about 97 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	62.89%	61	43,149
Adjective (general or positive)	34.02%	33	60,273
Noun (singular)	3.09%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	97	N/A

Expression using "sagging": sagging economy. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "sagging"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		огъване (hogging, translation). (various references)

Chinese		下垂 (Drooped, Drooping, Flagged, flagging, Sagged). (various references)

Danish		saenkning (blood sedimentation test, depression, dropping, ptosis, sinking), udgloedning (annealing, dropping), nedsynkning (blood sedimentation test, descensus, descent, ptosis, sagged, subsidence, sunken-in), nedhæng, gardindannelse (curtaining, running). (various references)

Dutch		zakkervorming (curtaining, running), zakken (abort, descend, fail, go down, miscarry), verweking (dropping, softening), verweken (dropping), uitzakking (eversion), uitzakken (droop, dropping, sedimentation), doorhang. (various references)

Finnish		valuminen (run, running, sag, yielding), valuma (runoff, run-off), vajottaminen (dropping), riippuma, painuma (depression). (various references)

French		ventre, tombant, tamisage, ramollissage, gauchissement, formation de festons, formation de coulures, flèche, coulure (sag), contre-arc, affaissement (sag). (various references)

German		senkung (counterbore, decline, decrease, dip, drop, fall, hollow, lowering, reduction, sag, settlement, sinking, subsidence, valley), Senken (bow, bring down, cut, decrease, descend, dip, lessen, lower, plant, reduce, send down, sink), sackend, Läuferbildung (curtaining, running), herabhängend (droopy, hanging), Gardinenbildung, Durchhang (slack, slack of track), Durchhängen (sag). (various references)

Greek		κρέμασμα (hang, hanging), κάμψη με μαλάκυνση (dropping), στίγματα σιδήρου από το πλέγμα, το βέλος του τόξου. (various references)

Hungarian		pozitív hajlítónyomaték (sagging bending moment), lógó csöcsök (pendulous breast, sagging breast), hajótestben fellépő feszültségek (sagging strains), gyenge piac (sagging market), üzlettelen piac (dead market, sagging market). (various references)

Indonesian		gelimbiran. (various references)

Italian		rammollimento (crook, dropping, softening), martellatura (batter, cockle(cast and float glass), hammer, wave), incurvato (bent), freccia (arrow, bolt, indicator, wisdom), colatura (leakage), cedimento (backdown, subsidence, yielding), cascante (baggy, drooping, flabby), cadente (cadent, crumbling, decrepit, dilapidated, falling, tumble down), allentato (slack). (various references)

Pig Latin		aggingsay.(various references)

Portuguese		martelado, flecha (arrow, bolt, broach, index, roasting-jack, sag, shaft, spire), escorridos (beading, curtaining, run, running, sag, slopping over), chupado (contracted, shrunken, wizen), cedência (assignment, dropping), caindo or afundando, amolecimento (mollification, softening), abatimento (chill, damp, dejection, depression, despondency, discount, doldrums, drawback, droop, enervation, heaviness, languor, mope, prostration, rebate, reduction, sag, settlement, weekness). (various references)

Russian		снижаться падающий. (various references)

Spanish		tamizado (bolting, screening, sifting, straining), moldeo por reblandecimiento (dropping), hundimiento (downfall, sag, sinking, submergence, subsidence), hundido (hollow, sunken), flojo (dull, fading, feeble, flabby, flagging, floppy, fluffily, forceless, groggy, idle, lame, lax, limber, limp, loose, loosely, milk and water, nerveless, slack, sluggish, soft, supine, thin, threadbare, tipsily, unfirm, unformal, ungirt, unsteadily, watery, weak, wishy washy, wobbly, wonky), flecha (arrow, dart, shaft), decreciente (decreasing, decrescent, degressive), decaído (crestfallen, depressed, discouraged, downhearted, raddled, weak), curvado por gravedad (dropping), combado (camber, cambered), baja (abatement, break, decay, decline, decrease, drop, fall, sink, slump). (various references)

Swedish		sänkning (abatement, depression, droop, sinking), uppmjukning (softening), nedhängning, gardinbildning. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Sagging" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: saggling, sargin. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "sagging" (pronounced sa"ging)
4	-a" g i ng	bagging, bragging, dragging, flagging, lagging, nagging, snagging, tagging, unflagging, wagging.
3	-g i ng	begging, binging, bogging, bootlegging, bugging, cataloging, cataloguing, chugging, clogging, debugging, demagoguing, digging, dogging, drugging, fatiguing, flogging, gigging, hogging, hugging, intriguing, jitterbugging, jogging, leapfrogging, legging, logging, lugging, mugging, pegging, plaguing, plugging, reneging, rigging, sandbagging, shrugging, slogging, slugging, snugging, tugging, zigzagging.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-g-g-g-i-n-s"
	-1 letter: agings, gaging.
	-2 letters: aging, gains, gangs, gigas.
	-3 letters: agin, ains, anis, gags, gain, gang, giga, gigs, gins, nags, sain, sang, sign, sing, snag.
	-4 letters: ain, ais, ani, gag, gan, gas, gig, gin, ins, nag, sag, sin.
	-5 letters: ag, ai, an, as, in, is, na, si.
	Words containing the letters "a-g-g-g-i-n-s"
	+1 letter: baggings, laggings, shagging, slagging, snagging, stagging, swagging.
	+2 letters: flaggings, fraggings, saggaring, saggering, scragging.
	+3 letters: aggressing, faggotings, misgauging, staggering, straggling, swaggering.
	+4 letters: disengaging, gaingivings, sandbagging, segregating.
	+5 letters: aggrandising, aggregations, staggeringly, swaggeringly, tobogganings.
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
sagging breast	83	facial sagging skin	3
sagging tit	49	lady old sagging tit very	3
sagging	26	couch sagging	3
sagging skin	25	natural sagging	3
floor sagging	21	repair roof sagging	3
sagging boob	19	floor repair sagging	3
pants sagging	18	sagging sofa	3
exercise for sagging breast	11	anti sagging	3
roof sagging	9	big sagging tit	3
face sagging	6	firm sagging breast	3
boy sagging	5	cunt lip sagging	2
boxer sagging	5	neck sagging skin	2
old sagging tit	5	prevent sagging skin	2
sagging breast picture	5	butt sagging	2
huge sagging tit	4	ceiling sagging	2
baggy pants personals sagging	4	chin sagging	2
after loss sagging skin weight	4	loss sagging skin weight	2
neck sagging	4	floor jack sagging	2
due loss prevent sagging weight	4	sagging stomach	2
jowls sagging	3	saddlebags sagging	2
		breast photo sagging	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Sagging

Definition: Sagging

Sagging

Adjective

Specialty Definition: Sagging

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Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

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Anagrams: Sagging

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