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Answer : STRAGGLE
straggle, straggled, straggles, straggling – v
wander from a direct or straight course
SYNONYMS
dawdle, meander, ramble, drift, lag, loiter, maunder, poke, range, roam, rove, scramble, spread, straddle, tail, trail
SENTENCE EXAMPLES
“People straggled off the train.”
“She straggled behind the rest of the group.”
“Branches straggled out and blocked the path.”
ETYMOLOGY
straggle (v.)
early 15c., “to wander from the proper path, stray, to rove from one’s companions,” perhaps from a Scandinavian source (compare dialectal Norwegian stragla “to walk laboriously”), or a frequentative of Middle English straken “to move, go.” Specifically of soldiers, “be dispersed, be apart from the main body,” from 1520s.
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