drag

pull, as against a resistance

• “He dragged the big suitcase behind him”
• “These worries were dragging at him”

draw slowly or heavily

• “haul stones”
• “haul nets”

force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action

• “They were swept up by the events”
• “don”

move slowly and as if with great effort

to lag or linger behind

• “But in so many other areas we still are dragging”

suck in or take (air)

• “draw a deep breath”
• “draw on a cigarette”

use a computer mouse to move icons on the screen and select commands from a menu

• “drag this icon to the lower right hand corner of the screen”

walk without lifting the feet

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

persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting

• “He dragged me away from the television set”

proceed for an extended period of time

• “The speech dragged on for two hours”

the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid

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”

something tedious and boring

• “peeling potatoes is a drag”

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”

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”

the act of dragging (pulling with force)

• “the drag up the hill exhausted him”