Crossword-Solution: DRAG
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Drag | n. | A confection; a comfit; a drug. |
| Drag | v. t. | 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. |
| Drag | v. t. | 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. |
| Drag | v. t. | To draw along, as something burdensome; hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty. |
| Drag | v. i. | 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. |
| Drag | v. i. | To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly. |
| Drag | v. i. | To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back. |
| Drag | v. i. | To fish with a dragnet. |
| Drag | v. t. | The act of dragging; anything which is dragged. |
| Drag | v. t. | A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc. |
| Drag | v. t. | A kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies; also, a kind of low car or handcart; as, a stone drag. |
| Drag | v. t. | A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage. |
| Drag | v. t. | A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground. |
| Drag | v. t. | 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). |
| Drag | v. t. | Also, a skid or shoe, for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel. |
| Drag | v. t. | Hence, anything that retards; a clog; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment. |
| Drag | v. t. | Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged. |
| Drag | v. t. | The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being the cope. |
| Drag | v. t. | A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone. |
| Drag | v. t. | 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. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DRAG | anagram | DARG, GARD, GRAD |
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Sentences with DRAG (5)
Crosswise then did Hiawatha Drag his birch-canoe for safety, Lest from out the jaws of Nahma, In the turmoil and confusion, Forth he might be hurled and perish.
Mean while in other parts like deeds deservd Memorial, where the might of _Gabriel_ fought, And with fierce Ensignes pierc’d the deep array Of _Moloc_ furious King, who him defi’d, And at his Chariot wheeles to drag him bound Threatn’d, nor from the Holie One of Heav’n Refrein’d his tongue blasphemous; but anon Down clov’n to the waste, with shatterd Armes And uncouth paine fled bellowing.
The Wolf and the Housedog A WOLF, meeting a big well-fed Mastiff with a wooden collar about his neck asked him who it was that fed him so well and yet compelled him to drag that heavy log about wherever he went.
What happened to her was of little consequence, so long as she did not drag other people down with her.
The first man he came to was running about in a great hurry, as if his thoughts were several yards in advance of his body, which they could never drag on fast enough.
Quotes with DRAG (3)
Life... as God intended it enables us to live above the drag of fear, superstition, shame, pessimism, guilt, anxiety, worry, and all the negativity that keeps people from seizing each day as a gift from Him.
At such moments the collapse of their courage, willpower, and endurance was so abrupt that they felt they could never drag themselves out of the pit of despond into which they had fallen. Therefore they forced themselves never to think about the problematic day of escape, to cease looking to the future, and always to keep, so to speak, their eyes fixed on the ground at their feet. But, naturally enough, this prudence, this habit of feinting with their predicament and refusing…
Oh dire, dreadful death, you drag your heels. Why dawdle and draw back? You drown my heart.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 439 times in crossword archives (1950–2025).