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"The speech dragged on for two hours"verbproceed for an extended period of time
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"But in so many other areas we still are dragging"verbto lag or linger behind
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"don't drag me into this business"verbforce into some kind of situation, condition, or course of actiontype of:
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verbdraw slowly or heavily
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verbwalk without lifting the feet
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"he took a drag on his cigarette and expelled the smoke slowly"nouna slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke)type of:
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verbsearch (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost
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nounthe phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid
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"he went to the party dressed in drag" "the waitresses looked like missionaries in drag"nounclothing that is conventionally worn by the opposite sex (especially women's clothing when worn by a man)type of:
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verbmove slowly and as if with great effort
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"He dragged me away from the television set"verbpersuade to come away from something attractive or interestingtype of:
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"He dragged the big suitcase behind him" "These worries were dragging at him"verbpull, as against a resistance
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"peeling potatoes is a drag"nounsomething tedious and boringtype of:
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"taxation is a drag on the economy" "too many laws are a drag on the use of new land"nounsomething that slows or delays progresstype of:
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"the drag up the hill exhausted him"nounthe act of dragging (pulling with force)
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"drag this icon to the lower right hand corner of the screen"verbuse a computer mouse to move icons on the screen and select commands from a menu
Definition that contains drag
- train drag loosely along a surface; allow to sweep the ground
- trail drag loosely along a surface; allow to sweep the ground
- tow drag behind
- anisoptera dragonflies
- suborder anisoptera dragonflies
- callionymidae dragonets
- odonata dragonflies and damselflies
- family callionymidae dragonets
- order odonata dragonflies and damselflies