(~s, ~ging, ~ged)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
A ~ is a piece of cloth which can be attached to a pole and which is used as a sign, signal, or symbol of something, especially of a particular country.
The Marines climbed to the roof of the embassy building to raise the American ~...
They had raised the white ~ in surrender.
N-COUNT
2.
Journalists sometimes refer to the ~ of a particular country or organization as a way of referring to the country or organization itself and its values or power.
Joining John Whitaker will be his brother Michael also riding under the British ~...
N-COUNT: with supp, usu adj N, N of n
3.
If you ~ or if your spirits ~, you begin to lose enthusiasm or energy.
His enthusiasm was in no way ~ging...
By 4,000m he was beginning to ~.
VERB: V, V
4.
see also ~ged
5.
If you fly the ~, you show that you are proud of your country, or that you support a particular cause, especially when you are in a foreign country or when few other people do.
PHRASE: V inflects