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Definition: Drag Down

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Verb

1. Exert a force with a heavy weight; "The snow bore down on the roof".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Synonyms: Drag Down

Synonyms: bear down (v), bear down on (v), press down on (v), weigh down (v). (additional references)

Modern Translation: Drag Down

Language		Translations for "drag down"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Czech		deprimovat (cast down, depress, dishearten, dispirit, get down, get down on one's knees), decimovat (decimate), stáhnout dolù, oslabovat. (various references)

German		niederreißen (break down, demolish, destroy, knock down, pull down, push down, raze, tear down, to break down, to pull down, to raze), herunterziehen (move down, pull down, pull off). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		引き下ろす (to drag down, to haul down). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ひきおろす (to drag down, to haul down). (various references)

Manx		tayrn sheese. (various references)

Pig Latin		agdray ownday

Serbo-Croatian		svući (disrobe, divest, unrobe). (various references)

Thai		ทำให้เหนื่อยอ่อน (หลังจากเจ็บป่วย), ลากลงไป. (various references)

Turkish		yıkmak (batter down, blast, blow down, break down, confound, dash, demolish, destroy, do for, explode, extinguish, housebreak, knock down, knock over, level, overthrow, pull dawn, puncture, ravage, ruin, shatter, shoot down, split, subvert, take down, unbuild), seviyesini düşürmek, perişan etmek (bring to ruin, desolate, prostrate, scatter), alçaltmak (bastardize, belittle, bemean, debase, detract, downgrade, lift down, lower, reduce, set down, sink). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Ancestral Language Translations: Drag Down

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	detracta, detractaque, detractos, detraham, detrahas, detrahat, detrahe, detrahebant, detrahent, detrahentem, detrahentes, detrahentia, detrahentur, detrahere, detraherent, detraheret, detraheris, detrahes, detrahet, detrahetur, detrahit, detrahunt, detraxerint, detraxero, detraxerunt, detraxeruntque, detraxi, detraxisti, detraxistis, detraxit. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Anagrams: Drag Down

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-d-g-n-o-r-w"
	-2 letters: dragon, drownd, onward.
	-3 letters: adorn, adown, argon, donga, drawn, drown, gonad, gowan, grand, groan, grown, orang, organ, radon, rowan, wagon, wrang, wrong.
	-4 letters: agon, dado, dago, dang, darn, dawn, dona, dong, down, drag, draw, gnar, gnaw, goad, gowd, gown, grad, gran, grow, nard, orad, rand, rang, road, roan, wand, ward, warn, woad, word.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-d-g-n-o-r-w"
	+1 letter: downgrade.
	+2 letters: downgraded, downgrades.
	+3 letters: downgrading, wrongheaded.
	+5 letters: wrongheadedly.
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Alternative Orthography: Drag Down

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 72 61 67 44 6F 77 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01110010 01100001 01100111 00100000 01000100 01101111 01110111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#114 &#97 &#103 &#32 &#68 &#111 &#119 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0072 0061 0067 0044 006F 0077 006E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

38846773238818980

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Translations: Ancient

5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography

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