1. Marked by a painfully slow and effortful manner
   "it was a strange dragging approach"; "years of dragging war"

1. Pull, as against a resistance
   "He dragged the big suitcase behind him"; "These worries were dragging at him"
    
2. Draw slowly or heavily
   "drag stones";
   - haul, hale [archaic], cart
    
3. Move slowly and as if with great effort
   "The sick man dragged himself to the doctor's office"
    
4. Use an input device to move objects on the screen, or to select items (such as commands from a menu); drag the slider to increase or decrease rate; drag the handles on the image to resize it
   "drag this icon to the lower right hand corner of the screen"
    
5. Walk without lifting the feet
   "The tired hiker dragged his feet along the trail";
   - scuff
    
6. Search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost
   "They dragged the river for the missing weapon";
   - dredge
    
7. Force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
   "don't drag me into this business"; "He tried to drag in irrelevant topics to distract from the main issue";
   - embroil, tangle, sweep, sweep up, drag in
    
8. To lag or linger behind
   "But in so many other areas we still are dragging";
   - trail, get behind, hang back, drop behind, drop back
    
9. Inhale smoke from a cigarette, pipe, etc.
   "He dragd on his cigarette";
   - puff, draw
    
10. Persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting
    "He dragged me away from the television set"
     
11. Proceed for an extended period of time
    "The speech dragged on for two hours"; "The negotiations dragged out for months";
    - drag on, drag out

See also: effortful

Type of: breathe in, dawdle, displace, draw, fall back, fall behind, go, inhale, inspire, involve, lag, locomote, look for, move, persuade, proceed, pull, scuffle, search, seek, shamble, shuffle, travel

Encyclopedia: Dragging