drag

VERBNOUN /dræɡ/
4 LETTERS · 2 SYLLABLES · STARTS WITH D

drag is a valid 4-letter word worth 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.

SCRABBLE WORDS WITH FRIENDS
D2R1A1G2
2 + 1 + 1 + 2 =6 PTS
DOUBLE WORD → 12TRIPLE WORD → 18
MEANING

What does drag mean?

VERB · 11 SENSES
1

Proceed for an extended period of time.

“The speech dragged on for two hours”

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2

Move slowly and as if with great effort.

3

Persuade to come away from something attractive or interesting.

“He dragged me away from the television set”

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4

Pull, as against a resistance.

“He dragged the big suitcase behind him”

“These worries were dragging at him”

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5

Use a computer mouse to move icons on the screen and select commands from a menu.

“drag this icon to the lower right hand corner of the screen”

6

To lag or linger behind.

“But in so many other areas we still are dragging”

7

Suck in or take (air).

SYNONYMS
8

Force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action.

“don't drag me into this business”

BROADER
9

Draw slowly or heavily.

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10

Walk without lifting the feet.

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11

Search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost.

SYNONYMS
NOUN · 6 SENSES
1

Clothing that is conventionally worn by the opposite sex (especially women's clothing when worn by a man).

“he went to the party dressed in drag”

“the waitresses looked like missionaries in drag”

2

Something tedious and boring.

“peeling potatoes is a drag”

3

Something that slows or delays progress.

“taxation is a drag on the economy”

“too many laws are a drag on the use of new land”

4

The act of dragging (pulling with force).

“the drag up the hill exhausted him”

5

A slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke).

“he took a drag on his cigarette and expelled the smoke slowly”

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NARROWER
6

The phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid.

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