| 例句 | 
		dragging (out)verbpresent participle of drag (out) to make longerpointless questions that merely dragged out the meeting another hour  drawing out, elongating, extending, lengthening, outstretching, prolonging, protracting, stretching amplifying, enlarging, expanding, increasingattenuating, thinning abbreviating, abridging, curtailing, cutting, cutting back, shortening decreasing, diminishing, lessening, reducingthickening  |