arrastrado

Arrastrado is the participle of the Spanish verb arrastrar and is used as an adjective and, less commonly, as a noun. It denotes something that has been pulled along or carried by another force or agent and agrees in gender and number with the noun it modifies (un objeto arrastrado, una persona arrastrada).

Usage spans everyday language and technical contexts. In ordinary speech it can describe physical movement: a cart is arrastrado by a horse, a vehicle can be arrastrado away by a tow truck, or an object can be arrastrado along the ground.

In the field of physics, the related term arrastre refers to drag, the resistive force exerted by a fluid on a body moving through it. Un cuerpo arrastrado is a body moving through air or water and experiencing drag; the magnitude of the arrastre depends on speed, shape, and fluid properties.

In computing and user interfaces, arrastrar is the action known as drag and drop; while less common, arrastrado can appear in documentation as in "archivo arrastrado" to indicate that a file has been dragged.

The term is neutral and widely understood in Spanish-speaking regions, with no fixed regional meaning beyond its general sense of being pulled along.