Straggler vs Straggled - What's the difference?
straggler | straggled |
One who straggles, or departs from the direct or proper course, or from the company to which he belongs.
One who falls behind the rest.
One who rambles without any settled direction.
A roving vagabond.
Something that shoots, or spreads out, beyond the rest, or too far; an exuberant growth.
Something that stands alone or by itself.
(straggle)
To stray from the road, course or line of march.
To wander about; ramble.
* L'Estrange
To spread at irregular intervals.
* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
, title=The Dust of Conflict
, chapter=7 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.
* Mortimer
To be dispersed or separated; to occur at intervals.
* Sir Walter Scott
* Sir Walter Raleigh
As a noun straggler
is one who straggles, or departs from the direct or proper course, or from the company to which he belongs.As a verb straggled is
(straggle).straggler
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(en noun)Derived terms
* blue stragglerstraggled
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(head)straggle
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(straggl)- He straggled away from the crowd and went off on his own.
- The wolf spied out a straggling kid.
citation, passage=Then there was no more cover, for they straggled out, not in ranks but clusters, from among orange trees and tall, flowering shrubs
- Trim off the small, superfluous branches on each side of the hedge that straggle too far out.
- straggling pistol shots
- They came between Scylla and Charybdis and the straggling rocks.