# flagged

Pronunciation: say "FLAGD" /flæɡd/

## Verb

1. Simple past and past participle of flag. — simple past and past participle of flag
   - Simple: Simple past and past participle of flag. Use this form for something that already happened.
   - _The auditor flagged several transactions for closer review._
   - _Reviewers had flagged the post before it was taken down._

## Adjective

2. Marked with a flag or marker, often to draw attention or indicate a particular status.
   - Simple: Marked with a flag or sign so it is easy to find or notice.
   - _The flagged files were the ones the auditor wanted to see first._
   - _Comments that were flagged stayed hidden until a moderator reviewed them._
3. Registered with a particular country and therefore flying that nation's flag.
   - Simple: Listed in a country's records, so the ship flies that country's flag.
   - _A Panamanian-flagged freighter waited just outside territorial waters._
   - _The vessel is flagged in Malta but owned by a Greek company._
4. Paved with flagstones: flat, fitted slabs of stone laid as a surface.
   - Simple: Covered with flat stone slabs used to make a path or floor.
   - _Rain pooled in the worn hollows of the flagged terrace._
   - _The hallway was flagged with broad gray slabs that echoed underfoot._
5. Of bristles, having split, bushy ends rather than blunt single tips.
   - Simple: Having soft, split ends, like the tips of some brush hairs.
   - _The flagged bristles released paint evenly across the wall._
   - _Toward the ends, each hair was flagged into several fine strands._

## Origin

**Meanings 1–3** — Formed from the noun flag, in the sense of a piece of cloth.
**Meaning 4** — Formed from the noun flag, in the sense of a flagstone.
**Meaning 5** — Formed from the noun flag, in the sense of the leg feathers on certain birds or the bushy tail of a dog.

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