dragged
- 1Simple past and past participle of drag.
He dragged the fallen branch off the hiking trail.
The heavy chairs were dragged across the stage during rehearsal.
Note
One spelling carries every sense of drag, from hauling a load to clicking and moving an icon. Transitive uses form passives (the files were dragged into the folder), but the intransitive sense of going on wearily has no passive and appears in the perfect with has: the meeting has dragged on. The particle on usually signals that slow, lingering meaning.
The afternoon meeting dragged on long past five.
She dragged the photos into a new folder on her desktop.
dragged is a form of drag
drag, verb: To pull something along a surface, or through a liquid or gas, often because it is heavy or hard to move. Full entry
- Spelling
- drag → dragged: double the g, add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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