Meaning

1 senses

  1. To move with a sharp turn or reversal.

Examples

1 sentences

  1. One of the moons, Naiad has a tilted orbital plane and circles Neptune in a zig zag, up and down pattern.

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Origin

Back-formation from zigzag. Compare zig.

Back-formation from zigzag. Compare zig.

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Forms

zags, zagging, zagged, zagged
Base formzag · to zag
3rd person singularzags
Present participlezagging
Past simplezagged
Past participlezagged

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyzag
he, she, itzags

Past simpleLesson

all personszagged

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave zagged
he, she, ithas zagged

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill zag

Word family

2 related words
Relatedzig
Derivedzigzag

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
yupyuriyurtyuzuzanyC1zao

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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