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Definition of drag : 1. A confection; a comfit; a drug.
2. A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage.
3. A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground.
4. A kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies; also, a kind of low car or handcart; as, a stone drag.
5. A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc.
6. A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
7. Also, a skid or shoe, for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
8. Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; esp., a canvas bag with a hooped mouth, so used. See sail ( below).
9. Hence, anything that retards; a clog; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
10. Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
11. The act of dragging; anything which is dragged.
12. The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being the cope.
13. The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel. See Citation under Drag, v. i., 3.
14. To be drawn along, as a rope or dress, on the ground; to trail; to be moved onward along the ground, or along the bottom of the sea, as an anchor that does not hold.
15. To break, as land, by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow; to draw a drag along the bottom of, as a stream or other water; hence, to search, as by means of a drag.
16. To draw along, as something burdensome; hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
17. To draw slowly or heavily onward; to pull along the ground by main force; to haul; to trail; -- applied to drawing heavy or resisting bodies or those inapt for drawing, with labor, along the ground or other surface; as, to drag stone or timber; to drag a net in fishing.
18. To fish with a dragnet.
19. To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
20. To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.

Synonyms:

arterial, dangle, comforter, drive, tarry, fast, force, tousle, powderpuff, probe, give chase, come, shoe, centripetal force, imbibe, cross, chuff, balk, seek out, traverse, pant, cart, coordinates, centrifugal force, string, double-click, draggle, route, withdraw, pull back, span, spoilsport, thoroughfare, beachwear, shack, quilt, draw and quarter, lead, wet blanket, friction, espouse, train, strain, dragnet, brush, expressway, droop, sip, irritant, sop up, predicament, calamity, shackles, annoyance, suction, anchor, dog, dredge, snooze, party pooper, drop behind, key, garb, tag, puff up, droner, trammel, costume, dress, nudnik, drip, chase after, squeeze, black tie, draw off, absorbance, take in, twist, clout, make, whiff, bonding, search, light up, boulevard, huff, ravel, capillary action, road, click, suspend, drag-and-drop, embrace, pouffe, soak up, sweep, retarding force, hale, hang back, get behind, harrow, hang, drag on, combats, cast, hang out, artery, swallow, amplitude, scuff, gulp, snort, attraction, cascade, pick through, freeway, puff out, hover, inconvenience, carriageway, tail, scavenge, quarter, look out for, go after, tie, heave, get, interference, walk, pest, manacle, thruway, swing out, comfort, bother, delineate, conduct, sup, trail, civvies, street, togs, bore, creeping, habit, input, inch, guise, get out, getup, peeve, depict, push, hunt down, knot, suck up, dishevel, search out, accessory, pull in, baggies, creep up on, dally, yawner, drag by, highway, drag in, net, draw on, broom, hassock, track, procrastinate, menace, backspace, vexation, yawn, grinch, avenue, mat, embarrassment, wrench, bring, turnpike, deliver, black, pass, coerce, balance, joke, belt, problem, escort, slug, drag out, trouble, shepherd, irritation, describe, let, line, blow, roadway, nicotine gum, shot, draft, cold turkey, swig, chase, disembowel, snoozer, swill, enter, puff of air, reap, draw in, dilly-dally, chain, absorb, pluck at, casuals, haul off, trace, gasp, scraper, stumbling block, drop back, dullsville, incline, go through, eviscerate, high road, pull out, array, row, suck, adopt, nip, embroil, holdback, run, ottoman, take out, lag, thread, sling, calorific, cessation, pulling, sail, air resistance, quaff, take up, induce, puff, guide, sweep up, tear at, chain-smoke, blow up, swing, look for, ashtray, pike, nuisance, pressure

hinder (part of speech: verb)

cripple, block, thwart, burden, counter, congest, delay, oppose, baffle, inhibit, curb, snarl, obstruct, hamper, crimp, fetter, dam, foul, constipate, mire, hamstring, constrain, complicate, deter, entrap, tangle, clog, snag, paralyze, stop, brake, handicap, detain, resist, restrain, hinder, stay, bung, frustrate, bar, impede, bottleneck, choke, jam, plug, encumber, check, impair, cramp, restrict, entangle, catch, interrupt

attract (part of speech: verb)

attract, pull, draw, invite, enchant, engross, seduce, lure, entice, magnetize, allure, captivate, charm

hindrance (part of speech: noun)

disadvantage, blockade, blockage, bafflement, complication, entrapment, damper, impediment, constraint, deterrent, impedance, encumbrance, hurdle, frustration, inhibition, congestion, restriction, impasse, restraint, interruption, entanglement, resistance, hindrance, opposition, constipation, obstruction, drawback, barrier, stoppage, obstacle

pull (part of speech: verb)

jerk, haul, tow, tug, yank, grab

slow (part of speech: verb)

linger, poke, crawl, trudge, plod, dawdle, creep, slow, loiter, retard

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