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Drag

verb

(past & past part. dragged; pres. part. dragging)

1.

Pull, as against a resistance. "These worries were dragging at him"

2.

Draw slowly or heavily. Synonyms: cart, hale, haul. "Haul nets"

3.

Force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action. Synonyms: drag in, embroil, sweep, sweep up, tangle. "Don't drag me into this business"

4.

Move slowly and as if with great effort.

5.

To lag or linger behind. Synonyms: drop back, drop behind, get behind, hang back, trail.

6.

Suck in or take (air). Synonyms: draw, puff. "Draw on a cigarette"

7.

Use a computer mouse to move icons on the screen and select commands from a menu.

8.

Walk without lifting the feet. Synonym: scuff.

9.

Search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost. Synonym: dredge.

10.

Persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting.

11.

Proceed for an extended period of time. Synonyms: drag on, drag out.

noun

1.

The phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid. Synonym: retarding force.

2.

Something that slows or delays progress. "Too many laws are a drag on the use of new land"

3.

Something tedious and boring.

4.

Clothing that is conventionally worn by the opposite sex (especially women's clothing when worn by a man). "The waitresses looked like missionaries in drag"

5.

A slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke). Synonyms: puff, pull. "He took a drag on his cigarette and expelled the smoke slowly"

6.

The act of dragging (pulling with force).

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"Drag" Quotes from Famous Books

... so often the case with these South African storms, the rigour of the downfall was local, and while the brigade had been so badly caught that it was practically impossible for the teams to move the guns without the aid of drag-ropes, half a mile away the surface of the veldt was unaffected and the going good. This discovery caused the day to dawn with brighter prospects, and as soon as the sodden column, free of its transport, felt the sounder bottom, it shook itself as would ...

— On the Heels of De Wet • The Intelligence Officer

... if Tom's feelings had been consulted they might be said to drag; for it seemed an age before he knew that Jack had safely landed by the sudden slackening of ...

— Air Service Boys Flying for Victory - or, Bombing the Last German Stronghold • Charles Amory Beach

... money. And ma's so busy she can't drag clean up the hill to Doc Poole's office very often. And then—well, there ain't been much money since pop come out ...

— How Janice Day Won • Helen Beecher Long

... but he possessed qualifications which might have enabled him in less stormy times to fill the office of intendant with tolerable credit. It was his misfortune that circumstances forced him into the thankless position of being a henchman to the bishop and a drag ...

— The Fighting Governor - A Chronicle of Frontenac • Charles W. Colby

... this half-hour—hangin' about waitin' for you. That devil Joe," he went on, lowering his voice as he came up and speaking hurriedly, "has been trying to drag Yagorsha's girl into his ighloo. They've just had a fight out yonder on the ice. I got her away, but not before he'd thrown her down and given her a bloody face. We ought to ...

— The Magnetic North • Elizabeth Robins (C. E. Raimond)

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