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Noun trail has 3 senses
- trail - a track or mark left by something that has passed; "there as a trail of blood"; "a tear left its trail on her cheek"
--1 is a kind of path, track, course
--1 has particulars: slot; spoor
- trail - a path or track roughly blazed through wild or hilly country
--2 is a kind of track, cart track, cartroad
--2 has particulars:
- lead, track, trail - evidence pointing to a possible solution; "the police are following a promising lead"; "the trail led straight to the perpetrator"
--3 is a kind of evidence, grounds
Verb trail has 5 senses
- drag, trail, get behind, hang back, drop behind - to lag or linger behind; "But in so many other areas we still are dragging"
--1 is one way to lag, dawdle, fall back, fall behind
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
- chase, chase after, trail, tail, tag, give chase, dog, go after, track - go after with the intent to catch; "The policeman chased the mugger down the alley"; "the dog chased the rabbit"
--2 is one way to pursue, follow
Sample sentence:
They trail the car down the avenue
- trail, shack - move, proceed, or walk draggingly pr slowly; "John trailed behind behis class mates"; "The Mercedes trailed behind the horse cart"
--3 is one way to travel, go, move, locomote
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
- trail - hang down so as to drag along the ground; "The bride's veiled trailed along the ground"
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
- trail, train - drag loosely along a surface; allow to sweep the ground; "The toddler was trailing his pants"; "She trained her long scarf behind her"
--5 is one way to drag
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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