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
He whistled with surprise when he saw Mowgli being dragged up to a treetop and heard him give the Kite call for--“We be of one blood, thou and I.” The waves of the branches closed over the boy, but Rann balanced away to the next tree in time to see the little brown face come up again.
The monkeys dragged him into the Cold Lairs late in the afternoon, and instead of going to sleep, as Mowgli would have done after a long journey, they joined hands and danced about and sang their foolish songs.
Kill.” A scuffling mass of monkeys, biting, scratching, tearing, and pulling, closed over Bagheera, while five or six laid hold of Mowgli, dragged him up the wall of the summerhouse and pushed him through the hole of the broken dome.
It grew darker and darker, till at last the dragging, shifting coils disappeared, but they could hear the rustle of the scales.
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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