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Adjective dragging has 2 senses

dragging - marked by a painfully slow and effortful manner; "it was a strange dragging approach"; "years of dragging war"
Antonym: effortless (indirect, via effortful)
dragging - passing painfully or tediously slowly; "the dragging minutes"
Antonym: fast (indirect, via slow)

Verb drag has 11 senses

drag - pull, as against a resistance; "He dragged the big suitcase behind him"; "These worries were dragging at him"
--₁ is one way to pull, draw, force

Derived forms: noun drag₆, noun dragger₁
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
haul, hale, cart, drag - draw slowly or heavily; "haul stones"; "haul nets"
--₂ is one way to pull, draw, force

Derived forms: noun drag₆, noun dragger₁, noun dragger₂
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
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"
--₃ is one way to involve
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
drag - move slowly and as if with great effort
--₄ is one way to travel, go, move, locomote
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
drag, trail, get behind, hang back, drop behind - to lag or linger behind; "But in so many other areas we still are dragging"
--₅ is one way to lag, dawdle, fall back, fall behind
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
puff, drag, draw - suck in or take (air); "draw a deep breath"; "draw on a cigarette"
--₆ is one way to inhale, inspire, breathe in

Derived form: noun drag₅
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
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"
--₇ is one way to move, displace
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
scuff, drag - walk without lifting the feet
--₈ is one way to shuffle, scuffle, shamble
Sample sentence:
The children drag to the playground
dredge, drag - search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost
--₉ is one way to search, seek, look for
Sample sentences:
The men drag the area for animals
The men drag for animals in the area
drag - persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting; "He dragged me away from the television set"
--₁₀ is one way to persuade
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody PP
drag, drag on, drag out - proceed for an extended period of time; "The speech dragged on for two hours"
--₁₁ is one way to proceed, go
Sample sentence:
Something ----s