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trailed behind

trailed behind is the simple past and past participle of trail behind.

Meaning of trail behind

Verb

trail behind (third-person singular simple present trails behind, present participle trailing behind, simple past and past participle trailed behind)

  1. (transitive) To increase or to succeed at a rate lower than (something else).
    • Tech stocks trailed behind the overall market today.
  2. (transitive) To follow (someone) slowly, usually surreptitiously.

Questions about trailed behind

What is trailed behind the simple past and past participle of?
Trailed behind is the simple past and past participle of trail behind.

Words near trailed behind in the dictionary

  1. trailcutters
  2. traildrive
  3. traildrives
  4. trailed
  5. trailed away
  6. trailed behind
  7. trailed off
  8. trailer
  9. trailer car
  10. trailer cars
  11. trailer court

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Adapted from Wiktionary: trailed behind (page history and authors); trail behind (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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