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Drag down

verb

Exert a force with a heavy weight. Synonyms: bear down, bear down on, press down on, weigh down.

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"Drag down" Quotes from Famous Books

... charm. Such a woman as a landlady, and a landlady in New York, was pathetically absurd. Even to still rather simple-minded Susan she seemed an invitation to the swindler, to the sponger with the hard-luck story, to the sinking who clutch about desperately and drag down with them everyone who permits them to ...

— Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise • David Graham Phillips

... then this world's wild joys had been To me one savage hunting scene, My sole delight the headlong race, And frantic hurry of the chase; To start, pursue, and bring to bay, Rush in, drag down, and rend my prey, Then—from the carcase turn away! Mine ireful mood had sweetness tamed, And soothed each wound which pride inflamed:— Yes, God and man might now approve me If thou hadst lived, ...

— The Golden Treasury - Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language • Various

Words linked to "Drag down" : press down on, bear down, weigh down, press, bear down on