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[ verb ] hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.
Synonyms Used in print (Rocky Mountains News, [Denver, Colorado],...)The Bears took the lead in the first inning , as they did in Sunday 's opener , and never lagged . (Edwin L. Bigelow and Nancy H. Otis,...)At_any_rate , Manchester did not lag far behind the first commercial system which was set_up in 1844 between Baltimore and Washington . |
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[ noun ] the act of slowing down or falling behind
Synonyms Used in print (Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)Of_course , nationalism has really outlived its usefulness in a country as world oriented as ours , and its continued existence reflects one of the major culture lags of the twentieth century United_States . Related terms |
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[ noun ] the time between one event, process, or period and another
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[ verb ] lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
Synonyms imprison jail put_away put_behind_bars jug gaol immure remand incarcerate Examples "The suspects were imprisoned without trial" "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life" Related terms confine law imprisonment jail captivity prison_guard imprisonment |
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[ verb ] throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins
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