word-vault/dist/data/cards/dr/drag.json

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{
    "term": "drag",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "drag",
            "heSheIt": "drags"
        },
        "pastSimple": "dragged",
        "pastParticiple": "dragged",
        "ingForm": "dragging"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to pull somebody/something along with effort and difficulty",
            "sensetop": "drag somebody/somethingdrag somebody/something + adv./prep.drag somebody/something + adj.",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The sack is too heavy to lift—you’ll have to drag it.",
                    "contextForm": "drag somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I dragged the chair over to the window.",
                    "contextForm": "drag somebody/something + adv./prep."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They dragged her from her bed."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He quickly dragged a comb through his hair."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She managed to drag him clear of the wreckage.",
                    "contextForm": "drag somebody/something + adj."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Police dragged protesters away from the embassy entrance."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Dogs drag the sledges for hundreds of miles across the snow."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to take hold of something and pull it",
            "sensetop": "+ adv./prep.",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Desperately, Jinny dragged at his arm."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "to move yourself slowly and with effort",
            "sensetop": "drag yourself + adv./prep.+ adv./prep.",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I managed to drag myself out of bed.",
                    "contextForm": "drag yourself + adv./prep."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She always drags behind when we walk anywhere.",
                    "contextForm": "+ adv./prep."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He dragged himself back home."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She dragged herself up the stairs by the banister."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "to persuade somebody to come or go somewhere they do not really want to come or go to",
            "sensetop": "drag somebody/yourself + adv./prep.",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I'm sorry to drag you all this way in the heat."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The party was so good I couldn't drag myself away."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He came in, dragging his three children behind him."
                },
                {
                    "text": "My parents used to drag me to piano lessons when I was a kid."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's time you dragged yourself away from that computer!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I know you like hanging out in the mall, but I don't know why you have to drag me with you."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She dragged her eyes away from his."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "to pass very slowly",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Time dragged terribly."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The meeting really dragged."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "to move, or make something move, partly touching the ground",
            "sensetop": "drag something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "This dress is too long—it drags on the ground when I walk."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was dragging his coat in the mud.",
                    "contextForm": "drag something"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 7,
            "definition": "to search the bottom of a river, lake, etc. with nets or hooks",
            "sensetop": "drag something (for somebody/something)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "They dragged the canal for the murder weapon."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 8,
            "definition": "to move some text, an icon, etc. across the screen of a computer using the mouse",
            "sensetop": "drag something + adv./prep.",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Click on the file and drag it across."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Computers"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to be deliberately slow in doing something or in making a decision",
            "examples": [],
            "topics": ["Preferences and decisions"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to criticize or say bad things about somebody in public, in a way that is unfair",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The paper has dragged his name through the mud."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They feel their agency has been dragged through the mud by the press."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Football's good name is being dragged through the dirt."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "if you drag somebody kicking and screaming to do something, they only do it with great protests because they don't really want to do it at all",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The president had to be dragged kicking and screaming to the signing ceremony."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to improve your situation yourself, without help from other people",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dræɡ/",
                "audio": "dr/drag/drag__gb_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dræɡz/",
                "audio": "dr/drag/drags__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dræɡd/",
                "audio": "dr/drag/dragged__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈdræɡɪŋ/",
                "audio": "dr/drag/dragging__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dræɡ/",
                "audio": "dr/drag/drag__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dræɡz/",
                "audio": "dr/drag/drags__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dræɡd/",
                "audio": "dr/drag/dragged__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈdræɡɪŋ/",
                "audio": "dr/drag/dragging__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old English dragan or Old Norse draga ‘to draw’; the noun partly from Middle Low German dragge ‘grapnel, a grappling hook’."
}