Overview of verb drag

The verb drag has 11 senses

• drag -- (pull, as against a resistance; "He dragged the big suitcase behind him"; "These worries were dragging at him")


• haul, hale, cart, drag -- (draw slowly or heavily; "haul stones"; "haul nets")


• embroil, tangle, sweep, sweep up, drag, drag in -- (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")


• drag -- (move slowly and as if with great effort)


• drag, trail, get behind, hang back, drop behind, drop back -- (to lag or linger behind; "But in so many other areas we still are dragging")


• puff, drag, draw -- (suck in or take (air); "draw a deep breath"; "draw on a cigarette")


• 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")


• scuff, drag -- (walk without lifting the feet)


• dredge, drag -- (search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost)


• drag -- (persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting; "He dragged me away from the television set")


• drag, drag on, drag out -- (proceed for an extended period of time; "The speech dragged on for two hours")

Overview of adj dragging

The adj dragging has 1 sense

• dragging -- (marked by a painfully slow and effortful manner; "it was a strange dragging approach"; "years of dragging war")