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drag down

drag down verb: to cause (other people or another person) to suffer the same fate, or to feel the same negative mood.

Verb

drag down (third-person singular simple present drags down, present participle dragging down, simple past and past participle dragged down)

  1. (transitive) To cause (other people or another person) to suffer the same fate, or to feel the same negative mood.
    • I feel bad for him, but at the same time I cannot let him drag me down into his depths of negativity.2008, Shane Sartor, Spiritual Profits 2nd Edition
  2. (transitive) To earn, as in wages from a job.
    • You're dragging down 50k these days, right?
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drag, down.

Forms of drag down

third-person singular presentdrags down
present participledragging down
past participledragged down
pastdragged down

Questions about drag down

What does drag down mean?
Drag down means to cause (other people or another person) to suffer the same fate, or to feel the same negative mood.
What part of speech is drag down?
Drag down is a verb.
What is the past tense of drag down?
The past tense of drag down is dragged down.

Words near drag down in the dictionary

  1. drag clicks
  2. drag coefficient
  3. drag coefficients
  4. drag daughter
  5. drag daughters
  6. drag down
  7. drag handle
  8. drag hound
  9. drag hounds
  10. drag hunt
  11. drag hunted

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