drag up

1. 1.

   mention something unpleasant from the past

   “Drag up old stories”

   Synonymsdredge up

   Broadermention

Questions about drag up

What does drag up mean?

drag up means "mention something unpleasant from the past".

What is another word for drag up?

Close synonyms include dredge up. 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 up a common word?

drag up 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.