DRAG OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does drag out mean? 

• DRAG OUT (verb)
  The verb DRAG OUT has 2 senses:

1. last unnecessarily long

2. proceed for an extended period of time

  Familiarity information: DRAG OUT used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRAG OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Last unnecessarily long

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

drag on; drag out

Hypernyms (to "drag out" is one way to...):

endure; last (persist for a specified period of time)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

Proceed for an extended period of time

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

drag; drag on; drag out

Context example:

The speech dragged on for two hours

Hypernyms (to "drag out" is one way to...):

go; proceed (follow a certain course)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

 Context examples 

They were dead, and I lived; their murderer also lived, and to destroy him I must drag out my weary existence.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)