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.

Synonyms

droop

hang

bend

drop

dip

slump

hang down

depression

give way

swag

sink

collapse

fall

subside

flag

dangle

lower

cave in

warp

weaken

shrink

curve

slack

caving in

deteriorate

imprint

sag down

pull down

blunt

falling

flex

flexure

force

give out

hinge on

hogging

impress

indentation

indenture

leech onto

loiter

loll

lop

nutate

pitting

plumb

press

prostration

ptosis

push

rebate

reduction

reel

relent

ride

set

sink down

sinking

slip

stagger

stand

stand out

stoop

stutter

subsidence

swing

swoop

become bent

totter

trench

turn on

valley

weigh

weigh down

wilt

yield

be long

be loose

be slack

decadency

hang low

hinge upon

oceanic abyss

weigh on

preshoot

cp

be deep

down into

economic depression

descensus

amount of deflection

business depression

inflationary recession

bag

downward discount

bear

🐻

bear down

bear down on

bearish

beetle

🪲

bent

bow

🙇

buckle

bulge

cant

careen

carry weight

decadence

decline

deep

defect

deflect

deflection

depend

depend on

depend upon

depress

descend

devolve on

dimpling

dishing

excavation

fall down

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).