Drag
Drag verb - To cause to follow by applying steady force on.
Shift
Shift verb - To change the place or position of.
How words are described
| full | full drag | full shift |
| long | long drag | long shift |
| complete | complete drag | complete shift |
| obvious | obvious drag | obvious shift |
| Other adjectives: real, big, extreme, quick, main, biggest. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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The Something Song: "Song of the Viking", "Torch Song" Song Style Shift: "Hello It's Me" starts out as soft-rock before the horns and chorus drag it into Soul territory.
Source: Music / Something/Anything? - Hill Street Blues: When a ridiculously obese Loan Shark keels over dead of a heart attack in the cells and practically the entire day-shift is enlisted to try and drag his corpse up the stairs and into a waiting ambulance, Andy Renko ends up straining his groin in the process.
Source: Crack! Oh My Back! -
Ankle Drag: At the end, Gabi drags Nigel off into the jungle for "romance." Art Shift: The Travel Montage chronicling the trip from Rio to the Amazon constantly shifts to a animation style similar to that of a pop-up book (The first portion of the end credits is also in that style).
Source: Western Animation / Rio 2
Cite this Source
Shift and Drag. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 07, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/drag/shift
Drag & Shift. N.p., 2016. Web. 07 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/drag/shift>.
Shift or Drag. 2016. Accessed August 07, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/drag/shift.
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