Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive English) to cause (other people or another person) to suffer the same fate.
WordNet
v. exert a force with a heavy weight; "The snow bore down on the roof" [syn: bear down, bear down on, press down on, weigh down]
Usage examples of "drag down".
Planks creaked as plants lashing up from the depths tried to pull apart planks and drag down keels.
One wagon, ahead of the others, bore four stout negroes with axes to cut evergreens and drag down the vines, and the back of this wagon was piled high with napkin-covered hampers, split-oak baskets of lunch and a dozen watermelons.
If things got really bad, I might even drag down a few innocent bystanders with me.
Soviet ships plying the Lend-Lease run through Jap waters with impunity, though Germany's defeat was bound to drag down Japan.
She might as well have tried to drag down the crescent moon just rising: Nonnus wasn't going to let her drown to save her wrist from a bruise.
It was likely that he would drag down the other two and they would all slide, a tangled string of men and ropes, down the thousands of feet to the sharp rocks below.
The priests say that the ice-wyrms digest that which they drag down into their nest, or that the thing which incubates there and which they protect digests it.
The wheel that they turn operates a cogwheel, and the two cogs drag down an iron chain.
More than anything, she longed simply to drag down her blanket, roll up in it and close her eyes.
Yet with his sweet and refined home atmosphere he is able to realize his wish, and to keep himself free from the sordid aims and base ambitions which drag down the man whose business lies too exclusively in the money market of the vast Babylon.
They used the strength lent them by grief and anger to drag down the dragon, drag her from the skies.