OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 17016

zigzag

/ˈzɪɡ.zæɡ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
zigzag
A line or path that proceeds by sharp turns in alternating directions.
And still, high in front, arose the precipitous barrier of the mountain, greened over where it seemed that scarce a harebell could find root, barred with the zigzags of a human roa…
She had just succeeded in curving it down into a graceful zigzag, and was going to dive in among the leaves, which she found to be nothing but the tops of the trees under which she…
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 17018

zigzag

/ˈzɪɡ.zæɡ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
zigzaguear
To move or to twist in a zigzag manner.
At the base this vent was dark, cool, and smelled of dry, musty dust. It zigzagged so that he could not see ahead more than a few yards at a time.
[…] she saw them as we see the throngs which cover the canvases of Sallaert, Van Alsloot, and others of that school—vast masses of beings, jostling, zigzagging, and processioning i…
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