drag up

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To remind people of (something, usually unpleasant, from the past).
    — I don't know why John had to drag up the incident of the car accident. It was really embarrassing.
  2. To educate reluctant pupils. figuratively,transitive
    — "I don't want to spoil any comparison you are going to make," said Jim, "but I was at Winchester and New College." ¶ "That will do," said Mackenzie. "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve.[…]"
  3. To raise a child with insufficient discipline or instillment of social etiquette. UK,figuratively,transitive
    — It is said that the children of the very poor are not brought up, but dragged up.
  4. Of a man: to dress in women's clothing for entertainment.
  5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drag, up.

词形变化

drags up present,singular,third-person dragging up participle,present dragged up participle,past dragged up past
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