drag | English to English Dictionary

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drag

(dr/&/g )

noun (n)

the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid(noun.phenomenon)

Synonym:
retarding force

source: wordnet30
something that slows or delays progress(noun.cognition)

Example:
Taxation is a drag on the economy.
Too many laws are a drag on the use of new land.

source: wordnet30
something tedious and boring(noun.attribute)

Example:
Peeling potatoes is a drag.

source: wordnet30
clothing that is conventionally worn by the opposite sex (especially women's clothing when worn by a man)(noun.artifact)

Example:
He went to the party dressed in drag.
The waitresses looked like missionaries in drag.

source: wordnet30
a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke)(noun.act)

Example:
He took a drag on his cigarette and expelled the smoke slowly.

Synonym:
puff, pull

source: wordnet30
the act of dragging (pulling with force)(noun.act)

Example:
The drag up the hill exhausted him.

source: wordnet30
A confection; a comfit; a drug.(noun)

source: webster1913
The act of dragging; anything which is dragged.(noun)

source: webster1913

verb (v)

pull, as against a resistance(verb.contact)

Example:
He dragged the big suitcase behind him.
These worries were dragging at him.

source: wordnet30
draw slowly or heavily(verb.contact)

Synonym:
cart, hale, haul

source: wordnet30
force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action(verb.stative)

Example:
Don't drag me into this business.

Synonym:
drag in, embroil, sweep, sweep up, tangle

source: wordnet30
move slowly and as if with great effort(verb.motion)

source: wordnet30
to lag or linger behind(verb.motion)

Example:
But in so many other areas we still are dragging.

Synonym:
drop back, drop behind, get behind, hang back, trail

source: wordnet30
suck in or take (air)(verb.consumption)

Synonym:
draw, puff

source: wordnet30
use a computer mouse to move icons on the screen and select commands from a menu(verb.motion)

Example:
Drag this icon to the lower right hand corner of the screen.

source: wordnet30
walk without lifting the feet(verb.motion)

Synonym:
scuff

source: wordnet30
search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost(verb.contact)

Synonym:
dredge

source: wordnet30
persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting(verb.communication)

Example:
He dragged me away from the television set.

source: wordnet30
proceed for an extended period of time(verb.change)

Example:
The speech dragged on for two hours.

Synonym:
drag on, drag out

source: wordnet30
To draw slowly or heavily onward; to pull along the ground by main force; to haul; to trail; -- applied to drawing heavy or resisting bodies or those inapt for drawing, with labor, along the ground or other surface; as, to drag stone or timber; to drag a net in fishing.(verb)

source: webster1913
To be drawn along, as a rope or dress, on the ground; to trail; to be moved onward along the ground, or along the bottom of the sea, as an anchor that does not hold.(verb)

source: webster1913

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