Drag

Proceed for an extended period of time

Type of

Proceed

Go

Examples

The speech dragged on for two hours

To lag or linger behind

Examples

But in so many other areas we still are dragging

Suck in or take (air)

Synonyms

Draw

Puff

Entails

Smoke

Force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action

Type of

Involve

Examples

Don't drag me into this business

Draw slowly or heavily

Synonyms

Cart

Hale

Haul

Type of

Draw

Pull

Derivation

Dragger

Walk without lifting the feet

A slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke)

Synonyms

Puff

Pull

Has types

Toke

Part of

Smoking

Smoke

Examples

He took a drag on his cigarette and expelled the smoke slowly

Search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost

Synonyms

Dredge

The phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid

Clothing that is conventionally worn by the opposite sex (especially women's clothing when worn by a man)

Examples

He went to the party dressed in drag

The waitresses looked like missionaries in drag

Move slowly and as if with great effort

Persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting

Type of

Persuade

Examples

He dragged me away from the television set

Pull, as against a resistance

Type of

Draw

Pull

Also

Drag in

Derivation

Dragger

Examples

He dragged the big suitcase behind him

These worries were dragging at him

Something tedious and boring

Usage of

Colloquialism

Examples

Peeling potatoes is a drag

Something that slows or delays progress

Examples

Taxation is a drag on the economy

Too many laws are a drag on the use of new land

The act of dragging (pulling with force)

Type of

Pulling

Pull

Examples

The drag up the hill exhausted him

Use a computer mouse to move icons on the screen and select commands from a menu

Type of

Move

Displace

Examples

Drag this icon to the lower right hand corner of the screen