DRAGGING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dragging mean? 

• DRAGGING (adjective)
  The adjective DRAGGING has 1 sense:

1. marked by a painfully slow and effortful manner

  Familiarity information: DRAGGING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRAGGING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Marked by a painfully slow and effortful manner

Context example:

years of dragging war

Similar:

effortful (requiring great physical effort)

 Context examples 

Strangling, suffocating, sometimes one uppermost and sometimes the other, dragging over the jagged bottom, smashing against rocks and snags, they veered in to the bank.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The reins were broken, but they had been dragging on the ground.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Then up he sprang, and moved off, dragging the lion behind him.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

He sprang through a gate into a field, dragging the reluctant Pompey after him.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Symptoms can include tremors, voice problems or a dragging foot.

(Dystonia, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

It made him frantic, this clinging, dragging weight.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“By the rood! I had forgot him,” John answered, rising and dragging from under him no less a person than the Spanish caballero, Don Diego Alvarez.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Professor Summerlee, a long, melancholy figure, walks with dragging steps and drooping head, as one who is already profoundly sorry for himself.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But the girl with the black eyes caught his arm, following him and dragging her companion after her, as she cried: Hold on, Bill!

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)