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drag through the dirt

drag through the dirt is the alternative form of drag through the mud.

Meaning of drag through the mud

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To tarnish or spoil enough so that something or someone is no longer respectable.
    • Red Moon Monster: Ever since that cheesy movie dragged our names through the mud, life hasn't been the same!1999, “Red Moon Monsters”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), season 1, episode 6b

Forms of drag through the dirt

third-person singular presentdrags through the dirt
present participledragging through the dirt
past participledragged through the dirt
pastdragged through the dirt

Questions about drag through the dirt

What is drag through the dirt the alternative form of?
Drag through the dirt is the alternative form of drag through the mud.

Words near drag through the dirt in the dictionary

  1. drag show
  2. drag shows
  3. drag strip
  4. drag strips
  5. drag the chain
  6. drag through the dirt
  7. drag through the mud
  8. drag up
  9. drag-along right
  10. drag-along rights
  11. drag-and-drop

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Adapted from Wiktionary: drag through the dirt (page history and authors); drag through the mud (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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