"flagging" in the noun sense
1. flagging
flagstones collectively
"there was a pile of flagging waiting to be laid in place"
2. flagging
a walk of flagstones
"the flagging in the garden was quite imaginative"
"flagging" in the verb sense
1. flag
communicate or signal with a flag
2. flag
provide with a flag
"Flag this file so that I can recognize it immediately"
3. sag, droop, swag, flag
droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness
4. flag
decorate with flags
"the building was flagged for the holiday"
5. ease up, ease off, slacken off, flag
become less intense
"flagging" in the adjective sense
1. drooping, flagging
weak from exhaustion
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