Antonyms for drag out

Grammar : Verb

Spell : drag

Phonetic Transcription : dræg

Definition of drag out

Origin : mid-15c., from Old Norse draga, or a dialectal variant of Old English dragan "to draw," both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *dragan "to draw, pull," from PIE root *dhragh- "to draw, drag on the ground" (cf. Sanskrit dhrajati "pulls, slides in," Russian drogi "wagon;" but not considered to be directly the source of Latin trahere).
Meaning "to take a puff" (of a cigarette, etc.) is from 1914. Related: Dragged; dragging. Drag-out "violent fight" is from c.1859. To drag (one's) feet (1946, in figurative sense) supposedly is from logging, from a lazy way to use a two-man saw.

verb extend

Example sentences :

So far, we can drag out the dawn to twice its normal length in these latitudes.
Extract from : « With The Night Mail » by Rudyard Kipling

But you have had to drag out a wretched existence in want and danger and darkness.
Extract from : « The Martyr of the Catacombs » by Anonymous

Then the men rush in from their hiding place and drag out the nets.
Extract from : « The Wonders of the Jungle » by Prince Sarath Ghosh

He lived a couple of miles off, and he had chosen a four-wheeler to drag out the time.
Extract from : « Nona Vincent » by Henry James

And you believe that I am destined to drag out my life here?
Extract from : « The Boy Nihilist » by Allan Arnold

They are fond of live “squabs,” which they drag out of their nests at pleasure.
Extract from : « The Hunters' Feast » by Mayne Reid

They run from house to house, and drag out the screaming inmates.
Extract from : « The Scalp Hunters » by Mayne Reid

So why not drag out and sort all that stuff, discarding all which is of no valuation?
Extract from : « Gadsby » by Ernest Vincent Wright

Then he tore into a trunk to drag out a bundle of old photographs.
Extract from : « The Arrow of Fire » by Roy J. Snell

She would have some money at last that she didn't have to drag out of her husband.
Extract from : « We Can't Have Everything » by Rupert Hughes

Synonyms for drag out

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