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drag

English

🔊 the act of dragging (pulling with force)
“the drag up the hill exhausted him”
🔊 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”
🔊 something tedious and boring
“peeling potatoes is a drag”
🔊 something that slows or delays progress
“taxation is a drag on the economy”
🔊 the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid
🔊 a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke)
“he took a puff on his pipe”
🔊 proceed for an extended period of time
“The speech dragged on for two hours”
🔊 persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting
“He dragged me away from the television set”
🔊 pull, as against a resistance
“He dragged the big suitcase behind him”
🔊 to lag or linger behind
“But in so many other areas we still are dragging”
🔊 move slowly and as if with great effort
🔊 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”
🔊 suck in or take (air)
“draw a deep breath”
🔊 search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost
🔊 walk without lifting the feet
🔊 draw slowly or heavily
“haul stones”
🔊 force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
“They were swept up by the events”