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Dragging
- verb - draw slowly or heavily; "haul stones"; "haul nets"
- force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action; "They were swept up by the events"; "don't drag me into this business"
- marked by a painfully slow and effortful manner; "it was a strange dragging approach"; "years of dragging war"
- move slowly and as if with great effort
- persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting; "He dragged me away from the television set"
- proceed for an extended period of time; "The speech dragged on for two hours"
- pull, as against a resistance; "He dragged the big suitcase behind him"; "These worries were dragging at him"
- search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost
- suck in or take (air); "draw a deep breath"; "draw on a cigarette"
- to lag or linger behind; "But in so many other areas we still are dragging"
- use a computer mouse to move icons on the scree
Draggled
- verb - limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud; "the beggar's bedraggled clothes"; "scarecrows in battered hats or draggled skirts"
- make wet and dirty, as from rain
Draggles
- verb - make wet and dirty, as from rain
Dragline
- unknown - A heavy duty excavator used in civil engineering
Draglink
- - A link connecting the cranks of two shafts. (b) A drawbar.
Dragnets
- noun - a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths
- a system of coordinated measures for apprehending (criminals or other individuals); "caught in the police dragnet"
Dragoman
- noun - an interpreter and guide in the Near East; in the Ottoman Empire in the 18th and 19th centuries a translator of European languages for the Turkish and Arab authorities and most dragomans were Greek (many reached high positions in the government)
Dragomen
- noun - an interpreter and guide in the Near East; in the Ottoman Empire in the 18th and 19th centuries a translator of European languages for the Turkish and Arab authorities and most dragomans were Greek (many reached high positions in the government)
Dragonet
- noun - small often brightly colored scaleless marine bottom-dwellers; found in tropical and warm temperate waters of Europe and America
Dragoons
- noun - a member of a European military unit formerly composed of heavily armed cavalrymen
- compel by coercion, threats, or crude means; "They sandbagged him to make dinner for everyone"
- physically force
- subjugate by imposing troops