drag
/dɹæɡ/ verb B1- To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty. · Let's drag this load of wood over to the shed.· The misbehaving child was dragged out of the classroom.
- To proceed heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly. · Time seems to drag when you're waiting for a bus.· a. 1732, John Gay, epistle to a Lady Long, open panegyric drags at best.
- To act or proceed slowly or without enthusiasm; to be reluctant.
- To draw along (something burdensome); hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
- To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
- To operate a pointing device by moving it with a button held down; to move, copy, etc. (an item) in this way. · Drag the file into the window to open it.
- To unintentionally rub or scrape on a surface. · The car was so low to the ground that its muffler was dragging on a speed bump.
- To hit or kick off target.
He/she/it drags · Past dragged · Past participle dragged · -ing form dragging
Verb forms
- Base form
- drag
- He/she/it
- drags
- Past
- dragged
- Past participle
- dragged
- -ing form
- dragging
Phrasal verbs and expressions
- drag down To cause (other people or another person) to suffer the s...
- drag in Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drag, in.
- drag into To involve a reluctant person with a difficult or dangero...
- drag on To last too long.
- drag out To extend or lengthen excessively; to draw out.
- drag up To remind people of (something, usually unpleasant, from ...
From the library
She crept to the hole, caught Toto by the ear, and dragged him into the room again, afterward closing the trap door so that no more accidents could happen.
When they had dragged the nets to the shore they found but few fish: the nets were full of sand and stones, and the men were beyond measure cast down so much at the disappointment which had befallen them, but because they had formed such very different expectations.
After this, he gradually led him towards the pool in which he lived, until reaching the very brink, he suddenly jumped in, dragging the Mouse with him.
A WOLF, meeting a big well-fed Mastiff with a wooden collar about his neck asked him who it was that fed him so well and yet compelled him to drag that heavy log about wherever he went.
Other matches
- drag Resistance of a fluid to something moving throu... B2
- drag To perform as a drag queen or drag king. C2
- drag A performance art form associated with the LGBT... C2
- drag down To cause
- drag in Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: ...
- drag into To involve a reluctant person with a difficult ...
- drag on To last too long.
- drag out To extend or lengthen excessively
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