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dragTo move a mouse cursor while holding down a button on the mouse, often to move something on the screen.Rate it:
dragTo act or proceed slowly or without enthusiasm; to be reluctant.Rate it:
dragTo pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.Rate it:
dragTo move slowly.Rate it:
drag downto cause to suffer the same fate.Rate it:
drag inTo get into a course of action by forceful means.Rate it:
drag kingA female who dresses up in men's clothing, typically for public performance.Rate it:
drag onto last too longRate it:
drag one's feetTo procrastinate, put off; to dawdle, avoid, or make progress slowly and reluctantly.Rate it:
drag one’s heelsTo delay, to hold up progressRate it:
drag outTo extend or lengthen excessively.Rate it:
drag outTo haul or bring out forcefully or as though with force.Rate it:
drag something outDelay a decision by dragging, stretching, extending the conversation by injecting incidentals or humdrum history/misinformation/disproved calculations and extrapolations:Rate it:
drag through the mudto tarnish or spoil enough so that it is no longer respectableRate it:
drag upTo remind people of something, usually unpleasant, from the past.Rate it:
drag upTo educate reluctant pupils.Rate it:
drag upUsed other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see drag,‎ up.Rate it:
dragon's denA place to do battle, but the enemy is formidable. Only enter if prepared.Rate it:
drain awayTo diminish over time; to disappear or leak out gradually.Rate it:
drain outTo empty completely of liquids; to drain completely.Rate it:
drain outTo be emptied of liquid; to be drained completely.Rate it:
drain the main veinTo urinate.Rate it:
drain the swamp when up to one's neck in alligators(idiomatic) When performing a long and complex task, and when you've gotten utterly immersed in secondary and tertiary unexpected tangential subtasks, it's easy to lose sight of the initial objective. This sort of distraction can be particularly problematic if the all-consuming subtask or sub-subtask is not, after all, particularly vital to the original, primary goal, but ends up sucking up time and resources (out of all proportion to its actual importance) only because it seems so urgent.Rate it:
drama queenAny exaggeratedly dramatic person.Rate it:
drama queenWho behaves and speaks in an overly dramatic manner so as to garner attention.Rate it:
drank the koolaidDid what the Blind majority did, like a lemming, walking off a cliff.Rate it:
draw a bathTo fill a bathtub with water in preparation for taking a bath.Rate it:
draw a blankTo be unable to produce a required piece of information.Rate it:
draw a lineTo delimit a boundary or border.Rate it:
draw a line in the sandTo create a real or artificial boundary or distinction between (two places, people or things).Rate it:
draw a line in the sandTo indicate the threshold or level above which something will become unacceptable or will provoke a response; to create a boundary and imply or declare that its crossing will provoke a (negative) response.Rate it:
draw a line in the sandTo lay down a challenge; to provide a test of commitment (often one which carries a high risk) to a cause.Rate it:
draw awayTo move away.Rate it:
draw backTo retreat from a position.Rate it:
draw backTo move backwards.Rate it:
draw backTo withdraw from an undertaking.Rate it:
draw backTo pull something back or apart.Rate it:
draw downTo lower (curtains)Rate it:
draw downTo get fundingRate it:
draw evenTo attain the same level as a competitor.Rate it:
draw first bloodreferring to the first participant(s) in a game, contest, debate, etc. to gain an advantage over their opponent; to score first points in any competitionRate it:
draw inTo approach.Rate it:
draw inTo attract (groups of people).Rate it:
draw inTo get someone involved.Rate it:
draw offTo remove by using a siphon.Rate it:
draw onTo sketch or mark with pencil, crayon, etc., on a given surface.Rate it:
draw onTo approach, come nearer, as evening.Rate it:
draw onTo advance, continue; to move or pass slowly or continuously, as under a pulling force.Rate it:
draw onTo appeal to, make a demand of, rely on; to utilize or make use of, as a source.Rate it:
draw one's last breathTo die.Rate it:

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