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DRAGGING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Marked by a painfully slow and effortful manner
Example:
years of dragging war
Classified under:
Similar:
effortful (requiring great physical effort)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb drag
Context examples:
I fell in the sand with her, and, when I had recovered, contented myself with putting my hands under her shoulders and dragging her up the beach to the hut.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The wounded deer dragging its fainting limbs to some untrodden brake, there to gaze upon the arrow which had pierced it, and to die, was but a type of me.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Then come the sudden swirl round of the wind, the blistering gale from the south-west, the dragging anchor, the lee shore, and the last battle in the creaming breakers.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Close to Hand Cross we passed the Royal Brighton stage, which had left at half-past seven, dragging heavily up the slope, and its passengers, toiling along through the dust behind, gave us a cheer as we whirled by.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
One of the consequences of such fires is that when air is heated it rises to the upper layers of the atmosphere, dragging particles from the burned materials along with carbon monoxide and other compounds derived from combustion.
(Australian bushfire smoke drifts to South America, SciDev.Net)
Then began as grim a tragedy of existence as was ever played—a sick man that crawled, a sick wolf that limped, two creatures dragging their dying carcasses across the desolation and hunting each other's lives.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
For the doom which had reft me from adhesion to my master: for him I was no more to see; for the desperate grief and fatal fury—consequences of my departure—which might now, perhaps, be dragging him from the path of right, too far to leave hope of ultimate restoration thither.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
As they came up onto the stone plateau that crowns the hill, Amy waved her hand as if welcoming him to her favorite haunt, and said, pointing here and there, Do you remember the Cathedral and the Corso, the fishermen dragging their nets in the bay, and the lovely road to Villa Franca, Schubert's Tower, just below, and best of all, that speck far out to sea which they say is Corsica?
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Like dents in a bumper, we can see the damage by looking for ghostly trails of dust extending outward from the disk, showing that another galaxy might have passed through, dragging dust from our galaxy along for the ride.
(All we are is dust in the interstellar wind, NSF)
The next instant he was grappling with Buck on the extreme edge, while Hans and Pete were dragging them back into safety.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
