Antonyms for sag

Grammar : Noun, verb

Spell : sag

Phonetic Transcription : sæg

Definition of sag

Origin : late 14c., possibly from a Scandinavian source related to Old Norse sokkva "to sink," or from Middle Low German sacken "to settle, sink" (as dregs in wine), from denasalized derivative of Proto-Germanic base *senkwanan "to sink" (see sink (v.)). A general North Sea Germanic word (cf. Dutch zakken, Swedish sacka, Danish sakke). Of body parts from 1560s; of clothes from 1590s. Related: Sagged; sagging.

noun drop, decline
verb droop

Example sentences :

All one has to do is to stop thinking and sag, or stop thinking and slash.
Extract from : « The Ghost in the White House » by Gerald Stanley Lee

The bubble was holding, but the morale of the crew was beginning to sag.
Extract from : « The Sky Trap » by Frank Belknap Long

I can see the sag of their tired shoulders against the whitewashed wall.
Extract from : « My Antonia » by Willa Cather

It bent, swayed, gave with her, letting her sag to a larger limb below.
Extract from : « The Flaming Jewel » by Robert W. Chambers

I've got on a pair of Wee Watts' now, and they sag something awful.
Extract from : « Blue Bonnet in Boston » by Caroline E. Jacobs

It did not sag, or lurch, or do any of those disreputable things.
Extract from : « Dwellers in Arcady » by Albert Bigelow Paine

So it may in perfect truth be said of you, that you are a scoundrel above all the scoundrels in the hateful ranks of Sag Nichtism.
Extract from : « Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; » by William Gannaway Brownlow

Or an apple—if you shift your other ballast—will not sag you beyond locomotion.
Extract from : « Chimney-Pot Papers » by Charles S. Brooks

There was a slight give and a sag, but the “human chain” held.
Extract from : « The Boy Scouts at the Panama Canal » by John Henry Goldfrap

Afterwards, he himself returned to the neighborhood of the Sag.
Extract from : « Buckskin Mose » by Buckskin Mose

Synonyms for sag

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