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Synonyms for lag behind

Grammar : Verb
Spell : lag
Phonetic Transcription : læg

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Définition 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
Example sentences :
  • 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

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