drag down

1. 1.

   exert a force with a heavy weight

   “The snow bore down on the roof”

   Synonymsbear downbear down onpress down onweigh down

   Broaderpress

Questions about drag down

What does drag down mean?

drag down means "exert a force with a heavy weight".

What is another word for drag down?

Close synonyms include bear down, bear down on, press down on, weigh down. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is drag down a common word?

drag down is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.