dragging
d ra ging
- v pull, as against a resistance
These worries were dragging at him - v draw slowly or heavily
- v force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
- v move slowly and as if with great effort
- v to lag or linger behind
But in so many other areas we still are dragging - v suck in or take (air)
- v use a computer mouse to move icons on the screen and select commands from a menu
- v walk without lifting the feet
- v search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost
- v persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting
- v proceed for an extended period of time
- s marked by a painfully slow and effortful manner
it was a strange dragging approach
years of dragging war
- What other term could describe the sight of armed and angry Shi'ite mobs rampaging through Baghdad and other cities, dragging Sunnis into the streets and executing them, looting .
- Officials expect this year's total number to dip to near 100, hopefully dragging down the murder rate accordingly.
- After Cambodia appealed for international assistance in setting up a genocide tribunal in 1997, it took another nine years of governmental foot-dragging and tortuous negotiations .