sag

Meaning

Noun

1. The state of sinking or bending; a droop.
2. The difference in elevation of a wire, cable, chain or rope suspended between two consecutive points.
3. The difference in height or depth between the vertex and the rim of a curved surface, specifically used for optical elements such as a mirror or lens.

Verb

1. To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane.
2. To lean, give way, or settle from a vertical position.
3. To lose firmness, elasticity, vigor, or a thriving state; to sink; to droop; to flag; to bend; to yield, as the mind or spirits, under the pressure of care, trouble, doubt, or the like; to be unsettled or unbalanced.
4. To loiter in walking; to idle along; to drag or droop heavily.
5. To cause to bend or give way; to load.
6. (informal) To wear one's trousers so that their top is well below the waist.
7. (informal) To pull down someone else's pants as a prank.

Concepts

sag

droop

hang

bend

drop

slump

dip

collapse

sink

swag

hang down

depression

give way

dangle

subside

flag

fall

cave in

lower

pull down

deteriorate

shrink

weaken

sag down

caving in

warp

slack

blunt

curve

imprint

give out

stutter

reel

stagger

totter

down into

slip

stoop

sinking

lop

bulge

stand out

hogging

flexure

defect

be loose

be slack

be long

hang low

cp

bow

cant

careen

buckle

flex

relent

decadence

decadency

prostration

subsidence

deflect

descensus

nutate

preshoot

ptosis

dimpling

dishing

excavation

falling

indentation

pitting

valley

amount of deflection

deflection

plumb

business depression

economic depression

inflationary recession

be deep

sink down

yield

set

wilt

bent

bear down

bear down on

carry weight

depress

force

impress

press

push

stand

weigh

weigh down

weigh on

deep

indenture

oceanic abyss

trench

beetle

depend

depend on

depend upon

devolve on

hinge on

hinge upon

ride

turn on

bag

leech onto

loiter

loll

swing

become bent

bear

bearish

decline

rebate

reduction

downward discount

descend

fall down

swoop

Pronounced as (IPA)

/sæɡ/

Etymology

From late Middle English saggen, probably of North Germanic/Scandinavian/Old Norse origin, akin to Old Norse sokkva (“to sink”), from a denasalized derivative of Proto-Germanic *sinkwaną (“to sink”).
Compare Norwegian Nynorsk sagga (“move slowly”)); probably akin to Danish and Norwegian sakke, Swedish sacka, Icelandic sakka. Compare also Dutch zakken and German sacken (from Low German).