prep.]
1 to grow, spread or move in an untidy way in different directions:
Her hair was straggling over her eyes. * The town straggled to an end and the fields began.
2 to move slowly behind a group of people that you are with so that you become separated from them:
On the way the kids straggled behind us.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for straggle is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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