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English to English noun
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the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid |  | source: wordnet30
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something that slows or delays progress | | Example: taxation is a drag on the economy
too many laws are a drag on the use of new land
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something tedious and boring | | Example: peeling potatoes is a drag
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clothing that is conventionally worn by the opposite sex (especially women's clothing when worn by a man) | | Example: he went to the party dressed in drag
the waitresses looked like missionaries in drag
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a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke) | | Example: he took a puff on his pipe
he took a drag on his cigarette and expelled the smoke slowly
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the act of dragging (pulling with force) | | Example: the drag up the hill exhausted him
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A confection; a comfit; a drug. | | source: webster1913
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The act of dragging; anything which is dragged. | | source: webster1913
verb
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pull, as against a resistance | | Example: He dragged the big suitcase behind him
These worries were dragging at him
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| 10 |
draw slowly or heavily | | Example: haul stones
haul nets
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force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action | | Example: They were swept up by the events
don't drag me into this business
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move slowly and as if with great effort | | source: wordnet30
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to lag or linger behind | | Example: But in so many other areas we still are dragging
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suck in or take (air) | | Example: draw a deep breath
draw on a cigarette
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use a computer mouse to move icons on the screen and select commands from a menu | | Example: drag this icon to the lower right hand corner of the screen
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walk without lifting the feet | | source: wordnet30
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search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost | | source: wordnet30
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persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting | | Example: He dragged me away from the television set
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proceed for an extended period of time | | Example: The speech dragged on for two hours
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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. | | source: webster1913
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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. | | source: webster1913
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