DRAG ON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does drag on mean? 

• DRAG ON (verb)
  The verb DRAG ON has 2 senses:

1. last unnecessarily long

2. proceed for an extended period of time

  Familiarity information: DRAG ON used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRAG ON (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Last unnecessarily long

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

drag on; drag out

Hypernyms (to "drag on" is one way to...):

endure; last (persist for a specified period of time)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

Proceed for an extended period of time

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

drag; drag on; drag out

Context example:

The speech dragged on for two hours

Hypernyms (to "drag on" is one way to...):

go; proceed (follow a certain course)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

 Context examples 

My business is to live without him now: nothing so absurd, so weak as to drag on from day to day, as if I were waiting some impossible change in circumstances, which might reunite me to him.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)