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[1] extremely tired or slow, as in movement; lethargic; sluggish: He was annoyed by their dragging way of walking and talking.
[2] used in dragging, hoisting, etc.: dragging ropes.
[3] to draw with force, effort, or difficulty; pull heavily or slowly along; haul; trail: They dragged the carpet out of the house.
[4] to search with a drag, grapnel, or the like: They dragged the lake for the body of the missing man.
[5] to level and smooth (land) with a drag or harrow.
[6] to introduce; inject; insert: He drags his honorary degree into every discussion.
[7] to protract (something) or pass (time) tediously or painfully (often followed by out or on ): They dragged the discussion out for three hours.
[8] to pull (a graphical image) from one place to another on a computer display screen, especially by using a mouse.
[9] to be drawn or hauled along.
[10] to trail on the ground.
[11] to move heavily or with effort.
[12] to proceed or pass with tedious slowness: The parade dragged by endlessly.
[13] to feel listless or apathetic; move listlessly or apathetically (often followed by around ): This heat wave has everyone dragging around.
[14] to lag behind.
[15] to use a drag or grapnel; dredge.
[16] to take part in a drag race.
[17] to take a puff: to drag on a cigarette.
[18] Nautical . a designed increase of draft toward the stern of a vessel. resistance to the movement of a hull through the water. any of a number of weights dragged cumulatively by a vessel sliding down ways to check its speed. any object dragged in the water, as a sea anchor. any device for dragging the bottom of a body of water to recover or detect objects.
[19] Agriculture . a heavy wooden or steel frame drawn over the ground to smooth it.
[20] Slang . someone or something tedious; a bore: It's a drag having to read this old novel.
[21] a stout sledge or sled.
[22] Aeronautics . the aerodynamic force exerted on an airfoil, airplane, or other aerodynamic body that tends to reduce its forward motion.
[23] a four-horse sporting and passenger coach with seats inside and on top.
[24] a metal shoe to receive a wheel of heavy wagons and serve as a brake on steep grades.
[25] something that retards progress.
[26] an act of dragging.
[27] slow, laborious movement or procedure; retardation.
[28] a puff or inhalation on a cigarette, pipe, etc.
[29] Hunting . the scent left by a fox or other animal. something, as aniseed, dragged over the ground to leave an artificial scent. Also called drag hunt. a hunt, especially a fox hunt, in which the hounds follow an artificial scent.
[30] Angling . a brake on a fishing reel. the sideways pull on a fishline, as caused by a crosscurrent.
[31] clothing characteristically associated with one sex when worn by a person of the opposite sex: a Mardi Gras ball at which many of the dancers were in drag.
[32] clothing characteristic of a particular occupation or milieu: Two guests showed up in gangster drag.
[33] Also called comb. Masonry . a steel plate with a serrated edge for dressing a stone surface.
[34] Metallurgy . the lower part of a flask. Compare cope2(def 5) .
[35] Slang . influence: He claims he has drag with his senator.
[36] Slang . a girl or woman that one is escorting; date.
[37] Informal . a street or thoroughfare, especially a main street of a town or city.
[38] a drag race.
[39] Eastern New England . a sledge, as for carrying stones from a field.
[40] marked by or involving the wearing of clothing characteristically associated with the opposite sex; transvestite.
[41] a decorating technique in which paint is applied with a specially modified brush to create a marbled or grainy effect
[42] to pull or be pulled with force, esp along the ground or other surface
[43] (tr; often foll by away or from) to persuade to come away (from something attractive or interesting) he couldn't drag himself away from the shop
[44] to trail or cause to trail on the ground
[45] (tr) to move (oneself, one's feet, etc) with effort or difficulty he drags himself out of bed at dawn
[46] to linger behind
[47] (often foll by on or out ) to prolong or be prolonged tediously or unnecessarily his talk dragged on for hours
[48] (tr foll by out ) to pass (time) in discomfort, poverty, unhappiness, etc he dragged out his few remaining years
[49] (when intr, usually foll by for ) to search (the bed of a river, canal, etc) with a dragnet or hook they dragged the river for the body
[50] (tr foll by out or from) to crush (clods) or level (a soil surface) by use of a drag
[51] (of hounds) to follow (a fox or its trail) to the place where it has been lying
[52] (intr) slang to draw (on a cigarette, pipe, etc)
[53] computing to move (data) from one place to another on the screen by manipulating a mouse with its button held down
[54] drag anchor (of a vessel) to move away from its mooring because the anchor has failed to hold
[55] drag one's feet or drag one's heels informal to act with deliberate slowness
[56] drag someone's name in the mud to disgrace or defame someone
[57] the act of dragging or the state of being dragged
[58] an implement, such as a dragnet, dredge, etc, used for dragging
[59] Also called: drag harrow a type of harrow consisting of heavy beams, often with spikes inserted, used to crush clods, level soil, or prepare seedbeds
[60] a sporting coach with seats inside and out, usually drawn by four horses
[61] a braking or retarding device, such as a metal piece fitted to the underside of the wheel of a horse-drawn vehicle
[62] a person or thing that slows up progress
[63] slow progress or movement
[64] aeronautics the resistance to the motion of a body passing through a fluid, esp through air: applied to an aircraft in flight, it is the component of the resultant aerodynamic force measured parallel to the direction of air flow
[65] the trail of scent left by a fox or other animal hunted with hounds
[66] an artificial trail of a strong-smelling substance, sometimes including aniseed, drawn over the ground for hounds to follow
[67] See drag hunt
[68] angling unnatural movement imparted to a fly, esp a dry fly, by tension on the angler's line
[69] informal a person or thing that is very tedious; bore exams are a drag
[70] slang a car
[71] short for drag race
[72] slang women's clothes worn by a man, usually by a transvestite (esp in the phrase in drag ) (as modifier ) a drag club ; drag show clothes collectively
[73] informal a draw on a cigarette, pipe, etc
[74] US slang influence or persuasive power
[75] mainly US slang a street or road

Words related to Dragging

boring, protracted, dull, long, prolonged, humdrum, lengthy, tedious, wearisome, drawn-out, overlong

Words nearby Dragging

drag rake, drag sail, drag strip, drag up, dragger, dragging, dragging piece, draggle, draggle-tail, draggle-tailed, draggletailed

Origin of Dragging

1350–1400; 1920–25 for def 18 ; Middle English; both noun and v. probably < Middle Low German dragge grapnel, draggen to dredge, derivative of drag- draw; defs 29, 30, 38 obscurely related to other senses and perhaps a distinct word of independent orig.

Other words from Dragging

drag·ging·ly , adverb
out·drag , verb (used with object), out·dragged, out·drag·ging.

Word origin for Dragging

Old English dragan to draw ; related to Swedish dragga

Synonyms for Dragging

boring, dull, long, prolonged, protracted, drawn-out, going slowly, humdrum, lengthy, overlong, tedious, wearisome