Crossword clues for dragged
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drag \Drag\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dragged; p. pr. & vb. n. Dragging.] [OE. draggen; akin to Sw. dragga to search with a grapnel, fr. dragg grapnel, fr. draga to draw, the same word as E. draw. ? See Draw.]
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To draw slowly or heavily onward; to pull along the ground by main force; to haul; to trail; -- applied to drawing heavy or resisting bodies or those inapt for drawing, with labor, along the ground or other surface; as, to drag stone or timber; to drag a net in fishing.
Dragged by the cords which through his feet were thrust.
--Denham.The grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down.
--Tennyson.A needless Alexandrine ends the song That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
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To break, as land, by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow; to draw a drag along the bottom of, as a stream or other water; hence, to search, as by means of a drag.
Then while I dragged my brains for such a song.
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To draw along, as something burdensome; hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
Have dragged a lingering life. -- Dryden.
To drag an anchor (Naut.), to trail it along the bottom when the anchor will not hold the ship.
Syn: See Draw.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: drag)
WordNet
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 "dragged".
Sometimes they dragged back a log or two for replacing a rotting beam, But with such a limited wood supply, carpenters were necessarily woodcarvers and sculptors as well.
Apollo dragged at the dregs of the punch bowl with the ladle, observed a dead roach floating among the spices, and thoughtfully handed the first cup to Brother Claret as the clerk approached.
They dragged him up on the platform where the colonel ripped off his insignia.
He removed a fat-burner from its tripod, dragged the tripod near a massive column that supported a balcony, and rested the bagpipe against it, aiming the muzzle toward the vault of darkness overhead.
He dragged her to safety from the rolling bits of slag, then called out to Lalyahe, who crouched behind a column.
The Commission guards had dragged a public address system halfway down the bat-cave.
The plump and panting Poele glanced up to protest, but Rathwich, his hard face twisted into a faint smile, strode into the room and dragged a chair toward the desk.
He was immediately seized by the hunchback and another creature and dragged away toward another house with a lighted doorway.
One of them penetrated behind their place to the cliff trail, and he saw too much, so the guards killed him quietly and dragged him away.
Thirty-seven cardinals rode horseback along with the Pope while another twenty-four bounced along in the beds of wagons dragged across the roadless grasslands by mules.
Grasshopper Horde was sacrificed to the Owner of all wild horses, dragged to death by the released animal at the end of a long rope.
Usually the sick ones were young, but sometimes a half-willing older patient would be dragged to a mountain doctor by her younger kin.
Judging by the mess on the floor and the overturned furniture, someone had already helped himself, or else the student had been dragged to the fort after resisting.
On the way, he was grabbed by the scruff of the neck and dragged to the fort.
Before dawn, Ulad and three husky townsmen unloaded two cannon from the wagons and dragged them forward to face the foe to the east.