flagging

flagging
Synonyms and related words:
ambling, cautious, circumspect, claudicant, coming apart, cracking, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, crumbling, debilitated, decadent, declining, degenerate, deliberate, deteriorating, disintegrating, draining, drooping, droopy, dwindling, easy, ebbing, effete, enervated, enfeebled, fading, fagged, failing, faint, fainting, falling, faltering, fatigued, feeling faint, foot-dragging, footsore, fragmenting, frazzled, gentle, going to pieces, good and tired, gradual, halting, hobbled, hobbling, idle, indolent, jaded, languid, languishing, languorous, lazy, leisurely, limping, lumbering, marcescent, moderate, pining, poking, poky, ready to drop, regressive, relaxed, reluctant, retrograde, retrogressive, run ragged, run-down, sagging, sauntering, seedy, shriveling, shuffling, sinking, slack, sliding, slipping, slothful, slow, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow, slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving, slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped, sluggish, slumping, snail-paced, snaillike, staggering, strolling, subsiding, tabetic, tentative, tired, tired-winged, toddling, toilworn, tortoiselike, tottering, trudging, turtlelike, unhurried, unrefreshed, unrestored, waddling, waning, wasting, way-weary, wayworn, weak, weakened, wearied, weariful, weary, weary-footed, weary-laden, weary-winged, weary-worn, wilting, withering, worn, worn-down, worsening

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