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Meanings of drag (dragged) in English
Portuguese
ser empurrado Retarding force on a body moving in a fluid.
Synonyms
Examples for "sweep"
Examples for "sweep"
1
The song is right: the Mournes do sweep down to the sea.
2
The military said it had prepared options for a Gaza ground sweep.
3
Rather, the question is: can it sweep through the other top categories?.
4
Analysts say a Democratic sweep could also bode well for emerging markets.
5
Britain's virtual sweep also included best comedy for Channel 4's The I.T.
1
And in the midst of the fleecy tangle Snowball struggled in vain.
2
It is the same affair; part and parcel of the same tangle.
3
The state was honeycombed and mined; society was a tangle of plots.
4
The lane ended just beyond in a tangle of weeds and undergrowth.
5
Things are in a sad tangle; I can't see the way out.
1
We must not embroil you with your confessor; nor Juanita with hers.
2
Why embroil yourself in an affair with which you have no concern?
3
Persist in this foolishness and you may embroil your country in war!
4
Child sexual abuse scandals continue to embroil the Church around the globe.
5
And now a new difficulty arose to embroil Europe in trouble.
1
Sudden doors flap, and gusts of brutal jollity sweep up the street.
2
This was even better, for sometimes hard winds sweep up the river.
3
I suppose he's going to sweep up many detachments of the enemy.
4
Most mornings I sweep up crumbs of polystyrene, from chewed roof insulation.
5
Now, Betty, get a dust-pan and brush and sweep up that glass.
1
Those in the bows leant over to drag in the young lord.
2
It could also drag in the big regional powers, Russia and Turkey.
3
We drag in those people, sweat them a bit, and learn more.
4
Fighting that could escalate and even drag in Syria itself, he added.
5
One may bear one's own troubles, but not drag in other people.
Usage of dragged in English
1
He dragged himself through the days minute by minute, second by second.
2
Certain themes remain consistent; others get dragged in to reflect current discontents.
3
I wouldn't feel sorry for the family members they dragged along, either.
4
One injured officer could be seen being dragged clear by a colleague.
5
But, in eight short years, the Apollo programme dragged the country ahead.
6
Vietnam stocks led the declines in the region, dragged by consumer stocks.
7
I needed to figure things out before the situation dragged me under.
8
An on-off court case against two men has dragged on for years.
9
Shall we be dragged by him to the bottom of the sea?
10
He then dragged the body to the ditch and threw it in.
11
Whoever dragged the national honor in the dirt won their deathless hatred.
12
Shocked onlookers dragged him to safety yesterday at about 8am local time.
13
He came; I rushed out to meet him and dragged him in.
14
The hours dragged on; the clock of a neighboring convent chimed noon.
15
One of them was bleeding; the rope had dragged off the skin.
16
Before that, however, my hospital stay had dragged on for another week.
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Translations for dragged
Catalan
Portuguese
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Dragged through the time
Dragged across language varieties
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United Kingdom
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