drag down
English
editVerb
editdrag down (third-person singular simple present drags down, present participle dragging down, simple past and past participle dragged down)
- (transitive) To cause (other people or another person) to suffer the same fate, or to feel the same negative mood.
- 2008, Shane Sartor, Spiritual Profits 2nd Edition:
- I feel bad for him, but at the same time I cannot let him drag me down into his depths of negativity.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drag, down.