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Synonyms for drag on
drag on
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Princeton's WordNet
drag on, drag outverb
last unnecessarily long
drag, drag on, drag outverb
proceed for an extended period of time
"The speech dragged on for two hours"
Synonyms:
draw, tangle, haul, hale, get behind, drop back, drag out, embroil, dredge, scuff, drag in, sweep up, trail, puff, sweep, cart, drag, hang back, drop behind
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#510 | cart | |
#3242 | trail | |
#3350 | draw | |
#6613 | drag | |
#12312 | sweep | |
#13626 | hale | |
#14302 | haul | |
#18108 | puff | |
#36011 | dredge | |
#37220 | tangle | |
#62783 | scuff | |
#278396 | embroil |
How to use drag on in a sentence?
It's clearly a drag on corporate profits.
There certainly is going to be pronounced risks mainly because we've now moved on to the tit-for-tat-for-tit phase of it, this is going to drag on until they can all come to the table and agree to even the playing field. But the unpredictability of the situation continues to rattle the markets.
If Kenya wants to really move into the Olympics with a clear conscience and with global credibility, then ... better testing and monitoring of our athletes has to be put in place immediately, if this scenario is going to drag on until Rio, then of course (a cloud) is going to hang over Rio as well.
The income tax is the biggest single intrusion suffered by the American people. It forces every worker to be a bookkeeper, to open his records to the government, to explain his expenses, to fear conviction for a harmless accounting error. Compliance wastes billions of dollars. It penalizes savings and creates an enormous drag on the U.S. economy. It is incompatible with a free society, and we aren’t libertarians if we tolerate it.
This debate, this division can not drag on much longer. It is putting members of Parliament and everyone else under immense pressure, and it is doing damage to our politics.
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- elhúzódikHungarian
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