Definition of drag

"drag" in the noun sense

1. drag, retarding force

the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid

2. drag

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"

3. drag

something tedious and boring

"peeling potatoes is a drag"

4. 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"

5. puff, drag, pull

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"

6. drag

the act of dragging (pulling with force

"the drag up the hill exhausted him"

"drag" in the verb sense

1. drag

pull, as against a resistance

"He dragged the big suitcase behind him"

"These worries were dragging at him"

2. haul, hale, cart, drag

draw slowly or heavily

"haul stones"

"haul nets"

3. embroil, tangle, sweep, sweep up, drag, drag in

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"

4. drag

move slowly and as if with great effort

5. drag, trail, get behind, hang back, drop behind, drop back

to lag or linger behind

"But in so many other areas we still are dragging"

6. puff, drag, draw

suck in or take (air

"draw a deep breath"

"draw on a cigarette"

7. drag

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"

8. scuff, drag

walk without lifting the feet

9. dredge, drag

search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost

10. drag

persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting

"He dragged me away from the television set"

11. drag, drag on, drag out

proceed for an extended period of time

"The speech dragged on for two hours"

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Quotations for drag

As the husband is, the wife is:
Thou art mated with a clown,
And the grossness of his nature
Will have weight to drag thee down. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling. [ Seneca ]

Error is very well so long as we are young, but we must not drag it with us into old age. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Never argue with idiots. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience [ Mark Twain ]

All who suffer are full of hatred; all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains. [ Victor Hugo ]

Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of that enormous chain which all the living in common drag behind them? [ Victor Hugo ]

drag in Scrabble®

The word drag is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters drag:

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drag in Words With Friends™

The word drag is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters drag:

DRAG
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The 83 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In drag

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Words within the letters of drag

2 letter words in drag (3 words)

3 letter words in drag (2 words)

4 letter words in drag (1 word)

drag + 1 blank (6 words)

Word Growth involving drag

Shorter words in drag

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Longer words containing drag

bedraggle bedraggled

bedraggle bedraggles

bedraggling

dragged outdragged

dragged redragged

dragger draggers footdraggers

dragger footdragger footdraggers

draggier

draggiest

dragging footdragging

dragging outdragging

dragging redragging

draggy

dragline draglines

dragnet dragnets

dragon dragonfish dragonfishes

dragon dragonflies

dragon dragonfly

dragon dragonlike

dragon dragons firedragons

dragon dragons seadragons

dragon dragons snapdragons

dragon dragonwort dragonworts

dragon firedragon firedragons

dragon seadragon seadragons

dragon snapdragon snapdragons

dragoon dragooned

dragoon dragooning

dragoon dragoons

dragrope dragropes

drags dragster dragsters

drags footdrags

drags outdrags

drags redrags

nondraggable

outdrag outdragged

outdrag outdragging

outdrag outdrags

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redrag firedragon firedragons

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