Drag and Handle

Drag

Drag verb - To cause to follow by applying steady force on.

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Handle and drag are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Handle" instead a verb "Drag".

Nearby Words: dragged, dragline

Handle verb - To deal with (something) usually skillfully or efficiently.

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Drag and handle are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Drag" instead a verb "Handle".

Nearby Words: hand, handled, handling, handler, handhold

low	low drag	low handle
long	long drag	long handle
complete	complete drag	complete handle
certain	certain drag	certain handle
Other adjectives: obvious, real, big, black, rear, yellow.

people	drag people	handle people
rest	drag rest	handle rest
way	drag way	handle way
characters	drag characters	handle characters
Other words: world, sword, enemies.

When the man's sympathizers try to drag her away the mood of the crowd changes drastically - nobody wants to side with people who man-handle children.

Source: Light Novel / Heavy Object
Bizarrely, there's also no atmospheric friction; with no drag from air resistance, vehicles handle completely identically in or out of an atmosphere, bar the gravity acceleration from planets.

Source: Video Game / Space Engineers
It's stated somewhere amongst the backstory that warp drives drag against the fabric of space, so a ship without a warp drive would be able to go as fast as its shields could handle (dust gets dangerous at high speeds), although it would be limited to slower-than-light travel.

Source: Space Friction

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