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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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... judged he could get to the middle of the channel. He had no parachute and no life belt or Mae West suit to float him. The chill water of the channel would soon drag him down. He had to locate a patrol boat or a British ship of some other class. And he had to watch for Messerschmitts and ...

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... precipice appears, The toil of the old fisher, gray with years; Mark, as to drag the laden net he strains, The labouring muscle and the swelling veins! There, in the sun, the clustered vineyard bends, And shines empurpled, as the morn ascends! A little boy, with idly-happy mien, To guard the grapes ...

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