(~s, ~ging, ~ged)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you ~ something, you pull it along the ground, often with difficulty.
He got up and ~ged his chair towards the table.
VERB: V n prep/adv
2.
To ~ a computer image means to use the mouse to move the position of the image on the screen, or to change its size or shape. (COMPUTING)
Use your mouse to ~ the pictures to their new size.
VERB: V n
3.
If someone ~s you somewhere, they pull you there, or force you to go there by physically threatening you.
The vigilantes ~ged the men out of the vehicles...
VERB: V n prep/adv
4.
If someone ~s you somewhere you do not want to go, they make you go there.
When you can ~ him away from his work, he can also be a devoted father...
VERB: V n adv/prep
5.
If you say that you ~ yourself somewhere, you are emphasizing that you have to make a very great effort to go there.
I find it really hard to ~ myself out and exercise regularly.
VERB: V pron-refl adv/prep emphasis
6.
If you ~ your foot or your leg behind you, you walk with great difficulty because you foot or leg is injured in some way.
He was barely able to ~ his poisoned leg behind him...
VERB: V n prep
7.
If the police ~ a river or lake, they pull nets or hooks across the bottom of it in order to look for something.
Yesterday police frogmen ~ged a small pond on the Common.
VERB: V n
8.
If a period of time or an event ~s, it is very boring and seems to last a long time.
The minutes ~ged past...
The pacing was uneven, and the early second act ~ged.
VERB: V adv, V
9.
If something is a ~ on the development or progress of something, it slows it down or makes it more difficult.
Spending cuts will put a ~ on growth.
N-SING: a N on n
10.
If you say that something is a ~, you mean that it is unpleasant or very dull. (INFORMAL)
N-SING: a N, oft N to-inf disapproval
11.
If you take a ~ on a cigarette or pipe that you are smoking, you take in air through it. (INFORMAL)
N-COUNT: oft N on n
12.
Drag is the wearing of women’s clothes by a male entertainer.
N-UNCOUNT: oft N n
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If a man is in ~, he is wearing women’s clothes.
The band dressed up in ~.
PHRASE: PHR after v, v-link PHR
13.
If you ~ your feet or ~ your heels, you delay doing something or do it very slowly because you do not want to do it.
The government, he claimed, was ~ging its feet.
PHRASE: V inflects