Meaning

17 senses
  1. (transitive)To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.

    Let's drag this load of wood over to the shed.

    The misbehaving child was dragged out of the classroom.

    schleifen, schleppen, zerren

    таска́тьtaskátʹ, тащи́тьtaščítʹ, волочи́тьvoločítʹ

    тяга́тиtjaháty, тягну́тиtjahnúty, тягти́tjahtý

  2. To proceed heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.

    Time seems to drag when you're waiting for a bus.

    a. 1732, John Gay, epistle to a Lady Long, open panegyric drags at best.

    draw slowly or heavily

  3. To act or proceed slowly or without enthusiasm; to be reluctant.

  4. To draw along (something burdensome); hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.

  5. To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.

  6. To operate a pointing device by moving it with a button held down; to move, copy, etc. (an item) in this way.

    Drag the file into the window to open it.

    sich ziehen, sich dahinziehen, ziehen

    тащи́тьсяtaščítʹsja, волочи́тьсяvoločítʹsja

  7. To unintentionally rub or scrape on a surface.

    The car was so low to the ground that its muffler was dragging on a speed bump.

  8. To hit or kick off target.

  9. To fish with a dragnet.

  10. To search for something, as a lost object or body, by dragging something along the bottom of a body of water.

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

  11. To break (land) by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow.

  12. (figuratively)To search exhaustively, as if with a dragnet.

Examples

477 sentences
  1. Don't drag me into this.

    Не втягуй мене в це. — deniko

    ruНе втягивай меня в это. — odexed

    deZieh mich da nicht mit rein. — mks

  2. Don't be such a drag.

    Не будь таким занудним. — deniko

    ruНе будь таким занудой. — marafon

  3. Tom was dragged into the cave.

    Тома затягли до печери. — deniko

    ruТома затащили в пещеру. — scriptin

  4. Tom has been dragging his feet.

    Том затягує час. — deniko

  5. Don't you drag me into this.

    ruНе впутывай меня в это. — odexed

    deZieh mich da nicht mit herein. — mrtaistoi

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to pull along a surface:
Русский
By meaning 2
to pull along a surface:
to move slowly:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
to pull along a surface:
to move slowly:

Origin

From Middle English draggen (“to drag”), early Middle English dragen (“to draw, carry”), c

From Middle English draggen (“to drag”), early Middle English dragen (“to draw, carry”), confluence of Old English dragan (“to drag, draw, draw oneself, go, protract”) and Old Norse draga (“to draw, attract”); both from Proto-Germanic *draganą (“to draw, drag”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- (“to draw, drag”).

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Forms

drags, dragging, dragged, dragged
Base formdrag · to drag
3rd person singulardrags
Present participledragging
Past simpledragged
Past participledragged

regular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theydrag
he, she, itdrags

Past simpleLesson

all personsdragged

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave dragged
he, she, ithas dragged

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill drag

Phrasal verbs

6 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

92 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

4 antonyms

Word family

28 related words

Collocations

3 patterns
  • got dragged into
  • dragged into this
  • got dragged

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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