drag
/dræg/ verb (present participle dragging, past tense and past participle dragged)Definition
drag sth/sb across/along/over, etc › to pull something or someone along the ground somewhere, usually with difficulty: The table was too heavy to lift, so we had to drag it across the room.
drag sb along/out/to, etc › to make someone go somewhere they do not want to go: She dragged me to the mall to look at shoes. I have to drag myself out of bed every morning.
COMPUTER [T] › to move something somewhere on a computer screen using a mouse (= small computer control)
TIME [I] (also drag on) › to continue for too much time in a boring way: The negotiations dragged on for months. → See also drag your feet
(Definition of drag verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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