The Collaborative International Dictionary
dragging \dragging\ adj. painfully or tediously slow and boring; as, the dragging minutes.
Wiktionary
n. An instance of something being dragged. vb. (present participle of drag English)
WordNet
adj. marked by a painfully slow and effortful manner; "it was a strange dragging approach"; "years of dragging war"
passing painfully or tediously slowly; "the dragging minutes"
n. the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid [syn: retarding force]
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" [syn: puff, pull]
the act of dragging (pulling with force); "the drag up the hill exhausted him"
v. 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" [syn: haul, hale, cart]
force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action; "They were swept up by the events"; "don't drag me into this business" [syn: embroil, tangle, sweep, sweep up, drag in]
move slowly and as if with great effort
to lag or linger behind; "But in so many other areas we still are dragging" [syn: trail, get behind, hang back, drop behind]
suck in or take (air); "draw a deep breath"; "draw on a cigarette" [syn: puff, draw]
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 [syn: scuff]
search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost [syn: dredge]
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" [syn: drag on, drag out]
See drag
Usage examples of "dragging".
Peggy in dragging the aeroplane under the shelter of an open cart-shed.
Dragging him to the wall opposite Alec, they manacled him hand and foot.
Winterbourne presently released the child, who departed, dragging his alpenstock along the path.
The sidewalk was filled with anorectic individuals of ambiguous gender, hugging guitar cases as if they were life preservers, dragging deeply on cigarettes and regarding the passing traffic with spaced-out apprehension.
His steps slowed overhead and she found herself listening out for him anxiously as she hurried to her own bedroom, showered and scrambled into a simple scoop-neck T-shirt and denim button-through skirt, dragging aquick brush through her hair.
Mr Topper, seizing the fallen man by the arnd and dragging him ruthlessly over the matting in an abortive effort to help him to his feet.
Crewmen on the deck scrambled for safety as the F14, its left wing dragging on steel, spun broadside, snapping the arrestor cables one after another as it hurtled toward a row of A6 Intruders just abaft of the island.
That urgent summons back to England, although dev astating, had been in another way a lifeline, dragging her back to reality.
Well, dragging Baldric upstairs to provide verse was absolutely out of the question.
Admiral King denied this and accused the British of dragging their feet in producing or repairing their own beaching and landing craft.
I will know, I thought dragging myself over, if your eyes are flat and dull, doll-blank, and your body stiff, ready for the next blow, I will know you have been brutalized, raped or beaten, that Beane broke your spirit in those long six weeks.
I wonder if David Westin would be so Swiss if someone had asked what he thought about what those vicious white bigots in Texas did to James Byrd, dragging him to his death from the back of a pickup truck?
Behind the chauffeurs came The Shadow, dragging Baybrock and Bleer along with him.
Thick tendrils of ooze burst from the center of the blob on her shoulder and wrapped themselves around her waist and legs, dragging Tash down to her knees.
Niccolini feared that His Holiness and the Holy Office, having made a great show of dragging Galileo to their doorstep, would not admit to having blundered by arresting an innocent man.