Antonyms for lag behind
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : lag |
| Phonetic Transcription : læg |
Definition of lag behind
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.
- As in hang back : verb be reluctant
- As in drag : verb move very slowly
- Put on your hat, friend, and follow us, for you lag behind and are late.
- Extract from : « Barnaby Rudge » by Charles Dickens
- Why should you lag behind the age in this fierce struggle for supremacy?
- Extract from : « The Root of Evil » by Thomas Dixon
- Let us agree that relatively the country will lag behind the town.
- Extract from : « Chapters in Rural Progress » by Kenyon L. Butterfield
- Ichabod pulled up and fell into a walk, thinking to lag behind.
- Extract from : « Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year » by E.C. Hartwell
- No party to fork off, lag behind, or go before, without permission.
- Extract from : « The Red Man's Revenge » by R.M. Ballantyne
- To her burning ambition it would have been unbearable to lag behind.
- Extract from : « Cleopatra, Complete » by Georg Ebers
- I often suffered my mule to lag behind, and indulged in the misery of reflection.
- Extract from : « Frankenstein » by Mary Shelley
- If he could be cool and calm, pride forbade that she should lag behind.
- Extract from : « An Unknown Lover » by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
- I am not sure whether some sluggards did not, because of it, lag behind.
- Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 » by Various
- The mother's heart beat rapidly, and she began to lag behind.
- Extract from : « Mother » by Maksim Gorky
Synonyms for lag behind
- be delayed
- be quiescent
- crawl
- creep
- dally
- dawdle
- delay
- drop back
- drop behind
- encounter difficulty
- hang
- hang fire
- hang off
- hold back
- hold off
- hover
- inch
- lag
- lag behind
- limp along
- linger
- loiter
- mark time
- pause
- poke
- procrastinate
- put off
- sag
- shamble
- shrink back
- shuffle
- shy away
- slow down
- stagnate
- stay back
- stick
- straggle
- tarry
- trail
- trail behind
- traipse
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