Antonyms for drag
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : drag |
| Phonetic Transcription : dræg |
Definition of drag
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.
- noun bad situation
- noun a puff while smoking
- verb haul something to a new place
- verb move very slowly
- We can only crawl along, having to walk and lead the horses, or at least drag them.
- Extract from : « Explorations in Australia » by John Forrest
- But he would dash out after her, seize her round the body, drag her back into the shop.
- Extract from : « The Secret Agent » by Joseph Conrad
- I caught him by the collar, too; and had to drag him in very much in the way I had done with Lewis.
- Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
- Nothing would do, but to go up into his lair, and drag him out.
- Extract from : « Welsh Fairy Tales » by William Elliott Griffis
- It is a pity to drag these poor chaps about from one ambulance to another.
- Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
- Pardon, Monseigneur; he swung by the chain of the shoe—the drag.
- Extract from : « A Tale of Two Cities » by Charles Dickens
- No, you will fall beneath an explosion of hisses, and drag all of us down with you.
- Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
- He clung on for a moment, long enough to drag the god over backward.
- Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London
- Yet he knew that it was not permitted him to pursue and drag them down.
- Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London
- We were defeated, and I am more than ever afraid that Tschauna will attempt to drag me off.
- Extract from : « The Chinese Fairy Book » by Various
Synonyms for drag
- annoyance
- be delayed
- be quiescent
- bore
- bother
- breathing
- burden
- crawl
- creep
- dally
- dawdle
- delay
- draw
- encounter difficulty
- encumbrance
- hale
- hang
- hang-up
- hindrance
- impediment
- inch
- inhalation
- lag
- lag behind
- limp along
- linger
- loiter
- lug
- magnetize
- mark time
- move
- nuisance
- pain
- pest
- pill
- poke
- procrastinate
- pull
- put off
- sag
- schlepp
- shamble
- shuffle
- slow down
- smoke
- stagnate
- straggle
- sway
- tarry
- tow
- trail
- trail behind
- traipse
- transport
- trouble
- truck
- tug
- yank
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