| drag | (noun) the act of dragging (pulling with force) | - |
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| (noun) a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke) | Synonyms: puff, pull |
| (noun) clothing that is conventionally worn by the opposite sex (especially women's clothing when worn by a man) | - |
| (noun) something tedious and boring | - |
| (noun) something that slows or delays progress | - |
| (noun) the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid | Synonyms: retarding force |
| (verb) proceed for an extended period of time | Synonyms: drag on, drag out |
| (verb) persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting | - |
| (verb) suck in or take (air) | Synonyms: draw, puff |
| (verb) pull, as against a resistance | - |
| (verb) draw slowly or heavily | Synonyms: cart, hale, haul |
| (verb) search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost | Synonyms: dredge |
| (verb) to lag or linger behind | Synonyms: drop back, drop behind, get behind, hang back, trail |
| (verb) walk without lifting the feet | Synonyms: scuff |
| (verb) move slowly and as if with great effort | - |
| (verb) 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 | - |
| (verb) force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action | Synonyms: drag in, embroil, sweep, sweep up, tangle |
| dragee | (noun) pill that is a sugar-coated medicated candy | - |
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| (noun) sugar-coated nut or fruit piece | - |
| (noun) silvery candy beads used for decorating cakes | - |
| dragger | (noun) a fishing boat that uses a trawl net or dragnet to catch fish | Synonyms: trawler |
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| (noun) someone who pulls or tugs or drags in an effort to move something | Synonyms: puller, tugger |
| dragging | (adjective) marked by a painfully slow and effortful manner | - |
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| draggingly | (adverb) in a dragging manner | - |
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| draggle | (verb) make wet and dirty, as from rain | Synonyms: bedraggle |
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| draggled | (adjective) limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud | Synonyms: bedraggled |
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| dragnet | (noun) a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths | Synonyms: trawl, trawl net |
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| (noun) a system of coordinated measures for apprehending (criminals or other individuals) | - |
| 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) | - |
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| dragon | (noun) any of several small tropical Asian lizards capable of gliding by spreading winglike membranes on each side of the body | Synonyms: flying dragon, flying lizard |
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| (noun) a fiercely vigilant and unpleasant woman | Synonyms: tartar |
| (noun) a creature of Teutonic mythology; usually represented as breathing fire and having a reptilian body and sometimes wings | Synonyms: European dragon, firedrake |
| dragonet | (noun) small often brightly colored scaleless marine bottom-dwellers; found in tropical and warm temperate waters of Europe and America | - |
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| dragonfly | (noun) slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest; adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc. | Synonyms: darning needle, devil's darning needle, mosquito hawk, sewing needle, skeeter hawk, snake doctor, snake feeder |
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| dragonhead | (noun) American herb having sharply serrate lanceolate leaves and spikes of blue to violet flowers | Synonyms: Dracocephalum parviflorum, dragon's head |
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| dragoon | (noun) a member of a European military unit formerly composed of heavily armed cavalrymen | - |
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| (verb) compel by coercion, threats, or crude means | Synonyms: railroad, sandbag |
| (verb) subjugate by imposing troops | - |