Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples
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Word:
dragging
IPA transcription: [dɹ'æɡɪŋ]
Pronunciations of dragging
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adverb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
dragging
Meaning:
marked by a painfully slow and effortful manner; "it was a strange dragging approach"; "years of dragging war"
Usage examples
They were dragging them toward the idols, and Jim understood what that scene portended.
They were dragging ever so much honey, which they crammed down the cross little Princesses' throats.
With that, they walk again; she, making those angry spirts in the sand; he, dragging that dejected tail.
The one in the lead is dragging a bit of gurry out from the water and up over the edge into the sunlight.
The boys were dragging along the banquette a small "express wagon," which they had filled with blocks and sticks.
As he turned, dragging the pole with him, up sprang the fire again from the hollow into which the wheel of the wagon had sunk.
The first thing she touched was Dolly's large pig-tail, and, grasping that tight, she sank again, dragging Dolly down with her, backward.
She gave me the idea of some fierce thing, that was dragging the length of its chain to and fro upon a beaten track, and wearing its heart out.
He advanced slowly, dragging himself along on his breast, forcing back the cry of pain when some raw wound sent a keen pang through his whole body.
They are not dragging anything, but are sort of helping the leader by crowding against him and eating little pieces out of the filament of his tail.
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