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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