drag

noun

  1. 1

    the act of dragging (pulling with force)

    the drag up the hill exhausted him

  2. 2

    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

  3. 3

    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

  4. 4

    something tedious and boring

    peeling potatoes is a drag

  5. 5

    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

  6. 6

    the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid

verb

  1. 1

    proceed for an extended period of time

    The speech dragged on for two hours

  2. 2

    persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting

    He dragged me away from the television set

  3. 3

    suck in or take (air)

    draw a deep breath

    draw on a cigarette

  4. 4

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

  5. 5

    pull, as against a resistance

    He dragged the big suitcase behind him

    These worries were dragging at him

  6. 6

    draw slowly or heavily

    haul stones

    haul nets

Synonyms

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