DRAG

• (noun) the act of dragging (pulling with force)

  "the drag up the hill exhausted him"

• (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"

  synonyms : puff , pull

• (noun) 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"

• (noun) something tedious and boring

  "peeling potatoes is a drag"

• (noun) 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"

• (noun) the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid

  synonyms : retarding force

• (verb) proceed for an extended period of time

  "The speech dragged on for two hours"

  synonyms : drag on , drag out

• (verb) persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting

  "He dragged me away from the television set"

• (verb) suck in or take (air)

  "draw a deep breath", "draw on a cigarette"

  synonyms : draw , puff

• (verb) search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost

  synonyms : dredge

• (verb) pull, as against a resistance

  "He dragged the big suitcase behind him", "These worries were dragging at him"

• (verb) draw slowly or heavily

  "haul stones", "haul nets"

  synonyms : cart , hale , haul

• (verb) walk without lifting the feet

  synonyms : scuff

• (verb) to lag or linger behind

  "But in so many other areas we still are dragging"

  synonyms : drop back , drop behind , get behind , hang back , trail

• (verb) move slowly and as if with great effort

• (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"

• (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"

  synonyms : drag in , embroil , sweep , sweep up , tangle

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