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dragon – dragoon – drag on:
[different vowel sounds]
“Dragon” (with a single ‘O’) means
(a) ‘an imaginary fire-breathing animal’,
(b) ‘an older lady in charge of a young girl’,
(c) ‘any woman who behaves in an angry and unfriendly way’,
e.g.
He has a computer game that is based on the story of a prince saving a princess from a dragon.
Most Chinese stories are full of fire-breathing dragons.
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“Dragoon”, with a double ‘O‘, as a noun, means ‘a soldier of a European army group’, and as a verb, with the preposition ‘into’, means ‘to force someone into obeying by using dangerous measures; making someone do what they do not want to do’,
e.g.
She was dragooned into dancing.
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“Drag on” (with a space between ‘drag’ and ‘on’) is a verb which means ‘to continue unnecessarily for a long time in a dull, uninteresting manner’,
e.g.
The second part of the film dragged on for so long that we switched off the TV.
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