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Flagging

adjective

Weak from exhaustion. Synonym: drooping.

noun

Flagstones collectively.

A walk of flagstones.

Flag

verb

(past & past part. flagged; pres. part. flagging)

Communicate or signal with a flag.

Provide with a flag.

Droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness. Synonyms: droop, sag, swag.

Decorate with flags.

Become less intense. Synonyms: ease off, ease up, slacken off.

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"Flagging" Quotes from Famous Books

... discharged in a motor attack. It is just here that the office of psychotherapy begins, its task being to bring about adjustment and forgetfulness for the unconscious processes. Indeed, the fading of memories and the flagging of affects, which we are apt to take as self-evident and to explain as a primary influence of time on the psychic memories, are in reality secondary changes brought about by painstaking work. It is the foreconscious ...

— Dream Psychology - Psychoanalysis for Beginners • Sigmund Freud

... and like some fallen seraph flying in rayless night, he gropes his way on flagging pinions, searching for light where darkness reigns, for life where Death ...

— Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales • Robert L. Taylor

... They only ran faster. Wink beat Ossie to the first window easily and passed out even with Perry. And as they landed on the stone flagging outside they heard Mr. Drummond ...

— The Adventure Club Afloat • Ralph Henry Barbour

... plants, successful unions were made in the open greenhouse, but they were placed in shade and kept sprinkled for a day after the grafts were made. The operation should always be performed quickly to prevent flagging of the cions. Or, if the cions cannot be used at once, they may be thrust into sand or moss in the same manner as cuttings, and kept for several days. In one series, tomato and potato cuttings, which had flagged in the cutting bed, revived when grafted. And cuttings ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 795, March 28, 1891 • Various

... hastened, eager and famishing, to the trap, but found in it only the forepaw of a beaver, the sight of which tantalized their hunger and added to their dejection. They resumed their journey with flagging spirits, but had not gone far when they perceived Le Clerc approaching at a distance. They hastened to meet him, in hope of tidings of good cheer. He had nothing to give them but news of that strange wanderer, M'Lellan. The smoke had arisen from ...

— The Great Salt Lake Trail • Colonel Henry Inman

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