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Antonyms for lag

Grammar : Verb
Spell : lag
Phonetic Transcription : læg

Definition of lag

Origin :
  • "fail to keep pace," 1520s, earlier as a noun meaning "last person" (1510s), later also as an adjective (1550s; e.g. lag-mon "last man"), all of uncertain relationship, possibly from a Scandinavian source (cf. Norwegian lagga "go slowly"), or some dialectal version of last, lack, or delay. Related: Lag; lagging. The noun meaning "retardation" is from 1855. First record of lag time is from 1951.
  • verb move slowly; delay
Example sentences :
  • Put on your hat, friend, and follow us, for you lag behind and are late.
  • Extract from : « Barnaby Rudge » by Charles Dickens
  • Neither anticipate your years, nor lag child-like behind them.
  • Extract from : « The Book of Khalid » by Ameen Rihani
  • Holes are provided in the Press for mounting by lag screws or bolts.
  • Extract from : « The Automobile Storage Battery » by O. A. Witte
  • I followed them at first, then began to lag with an odd unwillingness.
  • Extract from : « Disowned » by Victor Endersby
  • The book was begun in February and finished in April, so the work did not lag.
  • Extract from : « Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete » by Albert Bigelow Paine
  • It is only when the ways are rough and stony that he is prone to lag and linger.
  • Extract from : « Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer » by Jessie Graham Flower
  • Something unusual had happened or he would not lag so in coming to her.
  • Extract from : « The Secret of the Storm Country » by Grace Miller White
  • Why should you lag behind the age in this fierce struggle for supremacy?
  • Extract from : « The Root of Evil » by Thomas Dixon
  • In other words, there was a lag of about forty-eight hours between the two.
  • Extract from : « Disturbing Sun » by Robert Shirley Richardson
  • After these early successes the Russian operations began to lag.
  • Extract from : « A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year » by Edwin Emerson

Synonyms for lag

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