Actions
Synonyms for drag
Synonyms for drag: pull and sweep. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for drag
Two senses of drag, two audited synonyms, one for each. The bank does not stack alternatives under a sense it has not separated.
a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke)
He took a drag on his cigarette and expelled the smoke slowly.
The true synonym
pull
Same sentence, swapped: He took a pull on his cigarette and expelled the smoke slowly.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- gasp
- path
- oil
force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
Don't drag me into this business.
The true synonym
sweep
Same sentence, swapped: Don't sweep me into this business.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where drag stands in the sentence above.
- mire
- entangle
- check
Where drag turns up in the game
drag is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where drag is the trap
- drawverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is make, in the sense "make, formulate, or derive in the mind", and drag is on the board beside it.
- propverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is lean, in the sense "to support something by leaning it against or under a surface", so drag is there to be ruled out.
Play drag
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so drag reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because actions is the company drag keeps.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. drag carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.