DICTOMETER

DRAG

1. Synonyms:
   • Drag
   • Retarding force
   Definitions:
   • the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Drag
   Definitions:
   • something that slows or delays progress
   Examples:
   • Taxation is a drag on the economy
   • Too many laws are a drag on the use of new land
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Drag
   Definitions:
   • something tedious and boring
   Examples:
   • Peeling potatoes is a drag
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Drag
   Definitions:
   • clothing that is conventionally worn by the opposite sex (especially women's clothing when worn by a man)
   Examples:
   • He went to the party dressed in drag
   • The waitresses looked like missionaries in drag
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Puff
   • Drag
   • Pull
   Definitions:
   • a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke)
   Examples:
   • He took a puff on his pipe
   • He took a drag on his cigarette and expelled the smoke slowly
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Drag
   Definitions:
   • the act of dragging (pulling with force)
   Examples:
   • The drag up the hill exhausted him
   
   

1. Synonyms:
   • Drag
   Definitions:
   • pull, as against a resistance
   Examples:
   • He dragged the big suitcase behind him
   • These worries were dragging at him
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Haul
   • Hale
   • Cart
   • Drag
   Definitions:
   • draw slowly or heavily
   Examples:
   • Haul stones
   • Haul nets
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Embroil
   • Tangle
   • Sweep
   • Sweep up
   • Drag
   • Drag in
   Definitions:
   • force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
   Examples:
   • They were swept up by the events
   • Don't drag me into this business
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Drag
   Definitions:
   • move slowly and as if with great effort
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Drag
   • Trail
   • Get behind
   • Hang back
   • Drop behind
   • Drop back
   Definitions:
   • to lag or linger behind
   Examples:
   • But in so many other areas we still are dragging
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Puff
   • Drag
   • Draw
   Definitions:
   • suck in or take (air)
   Examples:
   • Draw a deep breath
   • Draw on a cigarette
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Drag
   Definitions:
   • use a computer mouse to move icons on the screen and select commands from a menu
   Examples:
   • Drag this icon to the lower right hand corner of the screen
   
   
8. Synonyms:
   • Scuff
   • Drag
   Definitions:
   • walk without lifting the feet
   
   
9. Synonyms:
   • Dredge
   • Drag
   Definitions:
   • search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost
   
   
10. Synonyms:
    • Drag
    Definitions:
    • persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting
    Examples:
    • He dragged me away from the television set
    
    
11. Synonyms:
    • Drag
    • Drag on
    • Drag out
    Definitions:
    • proceed for an extended period of time
    Examples:
    • The speech dragged on for two hours