Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context idiomatic English) To extend or lengthen excessively. 2 To haul or bring out forcefully or as though with force.
WordNet
Usage examples of "drag out".
With cries of triumph they fling themselves from their saddles, break it to pieces and drag out the body of Osiris.
And were those others - those shocking elder things of the mad winds and daemon pipings - in truth a lingering, lurking menace, waiting and slowly weakening in black abysses while varied shapes of life drag out their multimillennial courses on the planet's age-racked surface?
And were those others--those shocking Elder Things of the mad winds and daemon pipings--in truth a lingering, lurking menace, waiting and slowly weakening in black abysses while varied shapes of life drag out their multimillennial courses on the planet's age-racked surface?
Why drag out an existence in penury when wealth and its joys were thrust upon him?
And after a glass of champagne, I'm likely to drag out all their pictures.
The longer I stayed there, the more information would sink into my unconscious for me to drag out later if I needed it.
I felt this mad urge to drag out my wallet and see who was on the bills.