Similar words: flag down, bog down, bring down, lying down, dressing-down, dressing down, drag, bring down the house. Meaning: v. exert a force with a heavy weight.
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1 I will not have the likes of you dragging down my reputation.
2 Declining prices for aluminium have dragged down the company's earnings.
3 I'm worried the other children will be dragged down to his level .
4 There were fears he would be dragged down by the scandal.
5 I'm afraid the children will all be dragged down to his level.
6 The slump in Intel dragged down other tech stocks.
7 You're too fine a soldier to be dragged down.
8 They often drag down members of their family into their coal cellar of degradation as they fuel the fires of self destruction.
9 If his priorities drag down the Olympic movement, whose fault is that?
10 Consumers reined in their spending, dragging down December sales at many of the nation's largest retailers.
11 Finstat's figures are dragged down by that spread, as a market index is not.
12 I was dragged down the hard, concrete steps on to the pavement.
13 A nice goof is to hide it altogether by positioning your pointer on its top edge and dragging down.
14 As a result, they've dragged down Freeserve's share price to an all-time closing low of 122p.
15 The sell-offs had a dramatic effect because some of the businesses were loss-makers which dragged down profits last time.
16 Alice was, to his way of thinking, a fat, discarded hippie, dragged down by two monstrous happy-face earrings.
17 London shares dropped sharply, dragged down by steep declines on Wall Street Tuesday and in early dealings yesterday.
18 She was dragged down by her skull like an old-fashioned prisoner shackled to an iron ball.
19 Sometimes I was dragged down from our bed-sitter under the tiles.
20 The name would drag down even a great car.
21 Germany's defeat was bound to drag down Japan.
22 A slump could drag down other sectors like steel production.
23 Thus potential for a drop in exports to drag down China's growth is correspondingly greater.
24 Verbena: There's no need to drag down sex and pain when they can raise you up.
25 This means that if they fight alongside other troops their vulnerability will drag down your overall combat result score.
26 Beijing believes that due to ping refinancing scheme triggered investors panic selling, stock price drop to drag down the financial sector,[www.Sentencedict.com] and China Petroleum weight Unit continued to plummet.
27 Will the 13 - month - old credit crunch get even worse and drag down the entire global economy?
28 White collar workers are beginning to feel the squeeze of inflation, as rising prices drag down quality of life for low and middle-income households, Economic Information Daily reported.
29 Its share price duly tumbled on August 14 th, helping to drag down the market.
30 Nobody yet knows how long and how seriously the shakiness in the financial system will drag down the economy.
More similar words: flag down, bog down, bring down, lying down, dressing-down, dressing down, drag, bring down the house, drag in, dragon, drag on, dragged, dragoon, dragline, dragging, dragonfly, bedraggled, drawdown, down the drain, go down the drain, dragon boat festival, kingdom, hangdog, derring-do, wrongdoing, revolving door, let sleeping dogs lie, rag, draw, drat.