drag

drag in WordNet English dictionary

verb

draw slowly or heavily
"haul stones"; "haul nets"
haul hale cart drag
proceed for an extended period of time
"The speech dragged on for two hours"
drag drag on drag out
persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting
"He dragged me away from the television set"
drag
suck in or take (air)
"draw a deep breath"; "draw on a cigarette"
puff drag draw
pull, as against a resistance
"He dragged the big suitcase behind him"; "These worries were dragging at him"
drag
search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost
dredge drag
to lag or linger behind
"But in so many other areas we still are dragging"
drag trail get behind hang back drop behind drop back
walk without lifting the feet
scuff drag
move slowly and as if with great effort
drag
use a computer mouse to move icons on the screen and select commands from a menu
"drag this icon to the lower right hand corner of the screen"
drag
force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
"They were swept up by the events"; "don't drag me into this business"
embroil tangle sweep sweep up drag drag in

noun

the act of dragging (pulling with force)
"the drag up the hill exhausted him"
drag
a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke)
"he took a puff on his pipe"; "he took a drag on his cigarette and expelled the smoke slowly"
puff drag pull
clothing that is conventionally worn by the opposite sex (especially women's clothing when worn by a man)
"he went to the party dressed in drag"; "the waitresses looked like missionaries in drag"
drag
something tedious and boring
"peeling potatoes is a drag"
drag
something that slows or delays progress
"taxation is a drag on the economy"; "too many laws are a drag on the use of new land"
drag
the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid
drag retarding force