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Definition of Drag up
1. Verb. Mention something unpleasant from the past. "Drag up old stories"
Definition of Drag up
1. Verb. To remind people of something, usually unpleasant, from the past. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drag Up
Literary usage of Drag up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Hymns: Their Authors and History by Samuel Willoughby Duffield (1886)
"Thoughts should be free as fire or wind ; The pinions of a single mind Will
through all nature fly ; But who can drag up to the poles Long fetter'd ranks of ..."
2. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch (1837)
"... penetrated the very darkest recesses of antiquity, to strip Atheism of all
it* disguises, and drag up the lurking monster to conviction. ..."
3. Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Address--to Those who Think by Charles Caleb Colton (1849)
"... who should make a similar blunder in artillery, that they have done in argument,
and drag up an ancient battering ram to assist a modern cannon. ..."
4. A Treatise on Statics with Applications to Physics by George Minchin Minchin (1896)
"The magnitude of the force which, acting at 0 in any direction, will just sustain
or just drag up the body is easily represented in the above figure (Fig. ..."
5. A System of Mechanical Philosophy by John Robison, James Watt (1822)
"rods, but also to drag up the great piston. This it cannot do unless the steam
be admitted into the cylinder. If the steam be no stronger than common air, ..."
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