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Another word for flag

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Noun

  1. Fabric used especially as a symbol

    See also:

    substitute

Verb

  1. To communicate by means of such devices as lights or signs

    See also:

    words

    express

  2. To become limp, as from loss of freshness

    See also:

    better

  3. To lose strength or power

    Idioms:
    See also:

    strong

    increase

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Another word for flag

Noun

  1. A symbol, especially of a nation, usually on cloth

  2. Iris

    See also:

    iris

Verb

  1. To signal

    See also:

    signal

  2. To lose strength

    See also:

    weaken

    decrease

Idioms:

    strike the flag

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Sentence Examples

  • A small Colombian flag was neatly tucked in his open mouth.

  • That's the whole agenda; just rally 'round the flag, boys, chin held high.

  • Still, it was a red flag to what could have happened.

  • The people seemed to regard the American flag as the harbinger of a new era.

  • In December 1654 Penn and Venables sailed for the West Indies with orders to attack the Spanish colonies and the French shipping; and for the first time since the Plantagenets an English fleet appeared in the Mediterranean, where Blake upheld the supremacy of the English flag, made a treaty with the dey of Algiers, destroyed the castles and ships of the dey of Tunis at Porto Farina on the 4th of April 1655, and liberated the English prisoners captured by the pirates.

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