Antonyms for straggle

Grammar : Verb

Spell : strag-uh l

Phonetic Transcription : ˈstræg əl

Definition of straggle

Origin : c.1400, "to wander from the proper path, to rove from one's companions," perhaps from a Scandinavian source (cf. dialectal Norwegian stragla "to walk laboriously"), or a frequentative of straken "to move, go." Specifically of soldiers from 1520s. Related: Straggled; straggling.

verb wander, stray

Example sentences :

Complaining not, they straggle down to their bunks to change their clothes.
Extract from : « The Book of Khalid » by Ameen Rihani

Any man that says I straggle is a liar—exceptin' the colonel, and he's mistaken.
Extract from : « The Long Roll » by Mary Johnston

Do you suppose I'd go off with them, and let you straggle up home by yourself?
Extract from : « A Jolly Fellowship » by Frank R. Stockton

Nothing was allowed to straggle, or to take up more than its share of room.
Extract from : « "Some Say" » by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

Do they straggle along so loosely as to escape particular notice?
Extract from : « The Foot-path Way » by Bradford Torrey

But if they straggle to pick flowers or hunt lizards, they are sometimes carried off.
Extract from : « The Jungle Book » by Rudyard Kipling

We do not find any of our men inclined to straggle, after what they have seen.
Extract from : « The Cruise of the Mary Rose » by William H. G. Kingston

But she was forced by her geographical position into a "straggle" policy.
Extract from : « Problems of the Pacific » by Frank Fox

But they would not have been allowed to straggle, if any enemy had been about.
Extract from : « The Oxford Book of American Essays » by Various

There now, the boys and men are beginning to straggle off in pairs.
Extract from : « Missy » by Miriam Coles Harris

Synonyms for straggle

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