transcription, транскрипция: [ stræg(ə)l ]
( straggles, straggling, straggled)
1.
If people straggle somewhere, they move there slowly, in small groups with large, irregular gaps between them.
They came straggling up the cliff road...
VERB : V prep / adv
2.
If a small quantity of things straggle over an area, they cover it in an uneven or untidy way.
Her grey hair straggled in wisps about her face...
They were beyond the last straggling suburbs now.
VERB : V prep , V-ing