Word: dragnet
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: drag
net
Definition: Heightened efforts by law-enforcement personnel to capture suspects.
Morphemes:
Affix: drag
Language: en
PoS: Verb
Meaning: To search exhaustively, as if with a dragnet.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: draggen
Language: enm
Decoded: draggen
Meaning: to drag
Affix: net
Language: en
PoS: Verb
Meaning: To catch in a trap, or by stratagem.