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单词 straggled
释义
straggled
past simple and past participle ofstraggle
straggle
verb[Iusually+ adv/prep]
uk
/ˈstræɡ.əl/us
/ˈstræɡ.əl/
tomoveorspreaduntidilyand insmallnumbersoramounts:
I put myhairup because I don't like it straggling down my back.
Ayearafter thehurricane,touristsarebeginningto straggle(= come insmallnumbers)back to theregion.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Moving unsteadily or with difficulty
  • blunder
  • bumble
  • dodder
  • dodderer
  • doddery
  • have two left feetidiom
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  • limp
  • lollop
  • lumber
  • lurch
  • reel
  • shuffle
  • squeeze
  • stumble
  • toddle
  • toil
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Spreading and scattering
Slow and moving slowly
(Definition ofstraggledfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofstraggled

straggled

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

A little before the appointed time the membersstraggledin and disposed themselves on the tables and about the walls.
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Not long afterward, residentsstraggledback and street life became more active.
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In front of us a curious figure was standing, a little crouched, legsstraggled, arms held out from his sides.
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His troops, poorly trained and dispirited from the rapid changes of command,straggledinto action on unfavorable terrain.
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She thestraggledbehind the convoy and was abandoned.
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As a result, the fleetstraggledout of the harbour in no particular formation.
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The huts, he wrote, are of a miserable order andstraggledover a long continuous space.
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The wheat is very late and the huts arestraggledover a long continuous space.
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Judah was so drunk that be had to be lifted from his horse when the rear guardstraggledinto camp.
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Instead, he stayed with the pack train andstraggledfar behind the column.
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Alonsostraggledinto fourth, his rear tyres almost entirely bald.
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At noon astraggledprocession was formed of the system's 9 remaining vehicles which filed one by one into the depot which shut its gates without ceremony at 1230.
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Many menstraggledand a number collapsed.
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All three shipsstraggledand were sunk.
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On this rough road through hills and ravines, half of the army's horses died, one-quarter of the soldiersstraggled, and all but six artillery pieces were left behind.
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