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(noun) the act of dragging (pulling with force); "the drag up the hill exhausted him" |
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Related Words: pull, pulling |
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(verb) proceed for an extended period of time; "The speech dragged on for two hours" |
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Synonyms: drag on, drag out |
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Related Words: go, proceed |
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(verb) persuade to to come away from something attractive or interesting; "He dragged me away from the television set" |
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Related Words: persuade |
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(verb) pull, as against a resistance; "The sleigh was drawn by four reindeer"; "These worries were dragging at him" |
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Related Words: draw, force, pull, pull along, schlep, shlep, trail |
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(verb) to lag or linger behind: "But in so many other areas we still are dragging." |
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Synonyms: drop behind, get behind, hang back, trail |
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Related Words: dawdle, fall back, fall behind, lag |
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(verb) move slowly and as if with great effort |
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Related Words: go, locomote, move, travel |
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(verb) 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" |
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Related Words: displace, move |
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(noun) the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid |
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Synonyms: retarding force |
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Related Words: resistance, sonic barrier, sound barrier, windage |
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(noun) 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" |
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Synonyms: puff, pull |
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Related Words: breathing in, inhalation, inspiration, toke |
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(verb) suck in or take, as of air; "draw a deep breath"; draw on a cigarette" |
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Synonyms: draw, puff |
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Related Words: breathe in, inhale |
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(verb) drag, usually the bottom of a body of water |
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Synonyms: dredge |
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Related Words: look for, search, seek |
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(verb) walk without lifting the feet |
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Synonyms: scuff |
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Related Words: scuffle, shamble, shuffle |
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(verb) draw slowly or heavily; "haul stones"; "haul nets" |
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Synonyms: cart, haul |
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Related Words: bouse, bowse, draw, force, pull |
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(verb) 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" |
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Synonyms: drag in, embroil, sweep, sweep up, tangle |
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Related Words: involve |
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