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dragging — [adj] tiresome, monotonous boring, drawn out, dull, going slowly, humdrum, lengthy, long, overlong, prolonged, protracted, tedious, wearisome; concepts 482,798 Ant. energizing, lively … New thesaurus
dragging — draggingly, adv. /drag ing/, adj. 1. extremely tired or slow, as in movement; lethargic; sluggish: He was annoyed by their dragging way of walking and talking. 2. used in dragging, hoisting, etc.: dragging ropes. [1765 75; DRAG + ING2] * * * … Universalium
dragging — adjective marked by a painfully slow and effortful manner (Freq. 1) it was a strange dragging approach years of dragging war • Similar to: ↑effortful … Useful english dictionary
Dragging — Drag Drag, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dragged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dragging}.] [OE. draggen; akin to Sw. dragga to search with a grapnel, fr. dragg grapnel, fr. draga to draw, the same word as E. draw. ? See {Draw}.] 1. To draw slowly or heavily onward;… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
dragging — adj. Dragging is used with these nouns: ↑footstep … Collocations dictionary
dragging — adj. sluggish; passing painfully or slowly in a boring manner dræg n. tool used for dragging along the bottom of a body of water to recover objects; impediment, opposite force (such as the force working against an aircraft in motion); act of… … English contemporary dictionary
dragging — The freedom given to each blade of a rotor to allow it to move in the plane of rotation independently of other blades. It is basically the angular oscillation of a rotor blade in the plane of rotation about a substantially vertical axis. This is… … Aviation dictionary
dragging — vilkimas statusas T sritis fizika atitikmenys: angl. dragging; entrainment; pulling vok. Mitbewegung, f; Mitführung, f; Ziehen, n rus. затягивание, n; увлечение, n; унесение, n pranc. entraînement, m … Fizikos terminų žodynas
Dragging Down the Enforcer — Studio album by Outlaw Order Released November 10, 2008 … Wikipedia
Dragging Canoe — Tsiyu Gansini (ᏥᏳ ᎦᏅᏏᏂ), He is dragging his canoe , known to whites as Dragging Canoe, (c. 1738 – March 1, 1792) was a Cherokee war chief who led a band of Cherokee against colonists and United States settlers. Beginning during the American… … Wikipedia
