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UK
/dɹˈæɡ/
]
[ US /ˈdɹæɡ/ ]
[ US /ˈdɹæɡ/ ]
VERB
-
force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
don't drag me into this business
They were swept up by the events -
suck in or take (air)
draw on a cigarette
draw a deep breath -
pull, as against a resistance
These worries were dragging at him
He dragged the big suitcase behind him - walk without lifting the feet
- move slowly and as if with great effort
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persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting
He dragged me away from the television set -
proceed for an extended period of time
The speech dragged on for two hours -
use a computer mouse to move icons on the screen and select commands from a menu
drag this icon to the lower right hand corner of the screen -
draw slowly or heavily
haul stones
haul nets - search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost
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to lag or linger behind
But in so many other areas we still are dragging
NOUN
- the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid
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clothing that is conventionally worn by the opposite sex (especially women's clothing when worn by a man)
he went to the party dressed in drag
the waitresses looked like missionaries in drag -
a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke)
he took a drag on his cigarette and expelled the smoke slowly
he took a puff on his pipe -
something that slows or delays progress
too many laws are a drag on the use of new land
taxation is a drag on the economy -
something tedious and boring
peeling potatoes is a drag -
the act of dragging (pulling with force)
the drag up the hill exhausted him
How To Use drag In A Sentence
- Richardson, are proprietors of shows, and the berouged, bedraggled creatures who exhibit on the platform outside for their living. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843
- She was all cold and bedraggled after falling into the river.
- The series ended with a battle between a door car and a dragster.
- The mighty Dragon sneers at the prudent and penny-pinching.
- A cockatrice is a Dragon with a Crown on his head, and hatched by a Viper on a Cock's Egg. The Viper was the Symbol of Annotations
- A lot of things are a lot smoother and less of a drag now than they were four and a half months ago—finding the food on the left side of my plate, threading my left arm into my left shirtsleeve, typing, reading. Left Neglected
- I'm gonna drag you home tonight and we're going to explore this concept of evolution.
- Lee's debut on the Xbox does not resemble a dragon, but prefers to plod along like a sloth, short on all the crucial fronts, lazily bumbling along everywhere else.
- On the other end, there's the opening movement of Faschingsschwank aus Wien, where the lyricism is always being interrupted by a boisterous beer-hall ritornello: Florestan suddenly showing up to shake Eusebius out of his reverie and drag him back to the party. Been there, done that
- So what better way of proving her wrong than sticking her personal Myspace pics all over his site, libellously accusing her of being a porn star, and calling her an ugly old slack-fannied man in drag although, even in the worst pics he could dig up, I'm quite sure she's a damn sight foxier than he ever will be. The Haters of Roissy 3 : Bad Obsession
