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[ drag-ing ] / ˈdræg ɪŋ / SEE SYNONYMS FOR dragging ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectiveextremely tired or slow, as in movement; lethargic; sluggish: He was annoyed by their dragging way of walking and talking. used in dragging, hoisting, etc.: dragging ropes. Origin of draggingFirst recorded in 1765–75; drag + -ing2 OTHER WORDS FROM draggingdrag·ging·ly, adverbWords nearby draggingdrag chain, drag coefficient, drag down, dragée, dragger, dragging, dragging piece, draggle, draggle-tail, draggle-tailed, draggy Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for draggingEven on the day the wall fell, the East Germans were dragging their feet. How The Cold War Endgame Played Out In The Rubble Of The Berlin Wall|William O’Connor|November 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST They say The Guardian has been dragging its feet on the pursuit of NSA-related stories while keeping the Times on a short leash. Is The Guardian Holding Back The New York Times’ Snowden Stories?|Lloyd Grove|October 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST The EU needs another Greece or Portugal dragging down the euro like the EU needs another bureaucrat in Brussels. Up to a Point: A Free Scotland Would Be a Hilarious Disaster|P. J. O’Rourke|September 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST The driver responded by hitting Singh with his truck and dragging him for 30 feet. New York’s Sikhs Need Their Own Al Sharpton|Dean Obeidallah|August 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
They beat the activists, dragging bloodied bodies through the snow and herding women and children into armored vans. The Belarus Free Theatre’s Badass Dissident Artists Get the HBO Treatment|Katie Baker|July 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST Sure enough, Oliver appeared at the moment, dragging a heavy spar behind him. The Crew of the Water Wagtail|R.M. Ballantyne He could see now that they were dragging a hay-wagon with ropes. The Boy Scouts Book of Stories|Various When boy cannot be made to rhyme with employ, Crabbe is very fond of dragging in a hoy. Hours in a Library|Leslie Stephen Presently these undermined rocks would collapse, dragging down in their fall all the surrounding earth. Peasant Tales of Russia|V.I. Nemirovitch-Dantchenko I was leading my tired beast, and dragging him along as well as I could. Alone with the Hairy Ainu|A. H. Savage Landor
British Dictionary definitions for dragging
nouna decorating technique in which paint is applied with a specially modified brush to create a marbled or grainy effect Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to draggingboring, protracted, dull, long, prolonged, humdrum, lengthy, tedious, wearisome, drawn-out, overlong |