dragged

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.
   • Let's drag this load of wood over to the shed.
2. To proceed heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
   • Time seems to drag when you're waiting for a bus.
3. To act or proceed slowly or without enthusiasm; to be reluctant.
   • Dragging yourself out of a warm bed in the early hours of a wintry morning to go for a hike in the woods: It’s not an easy thing for some to do, but the visual treasures that await could be well worth the effort. If the weather conditions and the local flora are just right, you might come across...2013 September-October, James R. Carter, “Flowers and Ribbons of Ice”, in American Scientist
4. To draw along (something burdensome); hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
   • have dragged a lingering life1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
5. To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
   • A propeller is said to drag when the sails urge the vessel faster than the revolutions of the screw can propel her.1883, William Clark Russell, Sailor’s Language:A collection of Sea-terms and Their Definitions
6. To operate a pointing device by moving it with a button held down; to move, copy, etc. (an item) in this way.
   • Drag the file into the window to open it.

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