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Moving at a slow pace
“The minor disruptions students cause during your lesson might be due to a dragging pace that leaves them with too much time on their brains.”
Tiresome and monotonous
“We wanted to maintain a theatrical narrative to prevent it from becoming a dragging monologue.”
Having a great duration or lasting a long period of time
“We were given a dragging lecture about how students need complete peace and quiet to study, and that the library was made for that purpose.”
Chronic
Monotonous
Causing one to feel bored
Feeling tired, fatigued or weary
Pitifully sad and abandoned or lonely
Not having or showing good health
Draft or draught
Present participle for to pull or drag along through the application of steady force
“First I was chilled, then hot, then so weak I could barely pull myself out to drag our boat over sand shallows.”
Present participle for to move or act at a slow speed
“Other people might know more than the tender about Meyin, and he planned to ask around, but he knew that the next nine and a half hours would drag by excruciatingly slowly.”
Present participle for to move forward on the hands and knees or by dragging the body close to the ground
Present participle for walk doggedly and slowly with heavy steps
Present participle for to scrape against a surface, usually noisily
Present participle for fish
Present participle for to breathe in (air, gas, smoke, etc.)
Present participle for to subject (a place, text, etc.) to a thorough search in order to locate something
Present participle for breathe in repeated short gasps
Present participle for to move through the water in a boat using oars or paddles
Present participle for to decrease in number, amount, intensity, or quality
Present participle for to engage in activity with a person unwilling or unable to give consent
Present participle for to make emotionally sad or depressed
Present participle for to accompany and look after or supervise
Present participle for to apply great and continuous effort
Present participle for to make longer, especially a time period
Present participle for remove or take out, especially by effort or force
Present participle for chase for killing
Present participle for search determinedly for someone or something
Present participle for to attract or lure by temptation
Present participle for to operate and control the direction and speed of a motor vehicle
Present participle for to take the life of
Present participle for to move across or through a given point
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