📒 to pull somebody/something along with effort and difficulty
- drag somebody/something The sack is too heavy to lift—you’ll have to drag it.
- drag somebody/something + adv./prep. I dragged the chair over to the window.
- They dragged her from her bed.
📒 to take hold of something and pull it
- Desperately, Jinny dragged at his arm.
📒 to move yourself slowly and with effort
- drag yourself + adv./prep. I managed to drag myself out of bed.
- + adv./prep. She always drags behind when we walk anywhere.
- He dragged himself back home.
📒 to persuade somebody to come or go somewhere they do not really want to come or go to
- I'm sorry to drag you all this way in the heat.
- The party was so good I couldn't drag myself away.
- He came in, dragging his three children behind him.
📒 to pass very slowly
- Time dragged terribly.
- The meeting really dragged.
📒 to move, or make something move, partly touching the ground
- This dress is too long—it drags on the ground when I walk.
- drag something He was dragging his coat in the mud.
📒 to search the bottom of a river, lake, etc. with nets or hooks
- They dragged the canal for the murder weapon.
📒 to move some text, an icon, etc. across the screen of a computer using the mouse
- Click on the file and drag it across.
📒 to be deliberately slow in doing something or in making a decision
📒 to criticize or say bad things about somebody in public, in a way that is unfair
- The paper has dragged his name through the mud.
- They feel their agency has been dragged through the mud by the press.
- Football's good name is being dragged through the dirt.
📒 if you drag somebody kicking and screaming to do something, they only do it with great protests because they don't really want to do it at all
- The president had to be dragged kicking and screaming to the signing ceremony.
📒 to improve your situation yourself, without help from other people