drag
drag is a 4-letter English word with 37 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A confection; a comfit; a drug. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. A confection; a comfit; a drug.
- transitive verb. 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.
- transitive verb. 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.
- transitive verb. To draw along, as something burdensome; hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
- intransitive verb. To be drawn along, as a rope or dress, on the ground; to trail; to be moved onward along the ground, or along the bottom of the sea, as an anchor that does not hold.
- intransitive verb. To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
- intransitive verb. To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
- intransitive verb. To fish with a dragnet.
- transitive verb. The act of dragging; anything which is dragged.
- transitive verb. A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc.
- transitive verb. A kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies; also, a kind of low car or handcart; as, a stone drag.
- transitive verb. A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage.
- transitive verb. A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground.
- transitive verb. Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; esp., a canvas bag with a hooped mouth, so used. See Drag sail (below).
- transitive verb. Also, a skid or shoe, for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
- transitive verb. Hence, anything that retards; a clog; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
- transitive verb. Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
- transitive verb. The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being the cope.
- transitive verb. A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
- transitive verb. The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel. See Citation under Drag, v. i., 3.
- noun. the act of dragging (pulling with force)
"the drag up the hill exhausted him"
- noun. 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"
- noun. 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"
- noun. something tedious and boring
"peeling potatoes is a drag"
- noun. 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"
- noun. the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid
- verb. proceed for an extended period of time
"The speech dragged on for two hours"
- verb. persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting
"He dragged me away from the television set"
- verb. suck in or take (air)
"draw a deep breath"
"draw on a cigarette"
- verb. search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost
- verb. pull, as against a resistance
"He dragged the big suitcase behind him"
"These worries were dragging at him"
- verb. draw slowly or heavily
"haul stones"
"haul nets"
- verb. walk without lifting the feet
- verb. to lag or linger behind
"But in so many other areas we still are dragging"
- verb. move slowly and as if with great effort
- verb. 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"
- verb. 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"
Synonyms
puff, pull, draw, dredge, cart, hale, haul, scuff, trail, embroil, sweep, tangle
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in drag:
Common word forms
drags, dragged, dragger, dragging
Words from these letters
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