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Definition of Drag down
1. Verb. Exert a force with a heavy weight. "The snow bore down on the roof"
Definition of Drag down
1. Verb. (transitive) to cause (other people or another person) to suffer the same fate. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drag Down
Literary usage of Drag down
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1901)
"will come into play if the rod dries again, tending to hold the seed down in its
place in spite of the contraction, and to drag down the opposite end ..."
2. The London Medical and Physical Journal (1828)
"... the murderer of his lather, the stealer of a sheep, and the forger of a
bank-note, do their worst to drag down parricide to the level of sheep-stealing. ..."
3. The London Journal of Arts and Sciences by William Newton (1820)
"... but when descending a hill, and the use of a drag becomes necessary, the handle
is turned so as to bring the drag down to press upon the road. ..."
4. The Political Prohibition Text-book by W. W. Satterlee (1883)
"All compromises drag down the right, but do not elevate the wrong. License party
voters say," of two evils choose the /ess; " but he uho chooses evil does ..."
5. The Iliad of Homer by Homer (1921)
"Let us drag down the ships that are drawn up in the first line near to the sea,
and speed them all forth to the salt sea divine, and moor them far out with ..."
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