straggling
Meaning of straggling
verb
- To stray from the road, course or line of march.
He straggled away from the crowd and went off on his own.
- To wander about; ramble.
- To spread at irregular intervals.
- To escape or stretch beyond proper limits, as the branches of a plant; to spread widely apart; to shoot too far or widely in growth.
- To be dispersed or separated; to occur at intervals.
Information about straggling
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of straggling is: stragglings.
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Hyphenation of straggling
strag-gling
- It consists of 2 syllables and 10 chars.
- straggling is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
straggling synonyms
Meaning sprawling:
Words that rhyme with straggling
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