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PROCRASTINATE
procrastinate, stall, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, shillyshally, dilly-dally, dillydally
(verb) postpone doing what one should be doing; “He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days”
procrastinate
(verb) postpone or delay needlessly; “He procrastinated the matter until it was almost too late”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
procrastinate (third-person singular simple present procrastinates, present participle procrastinating, simple past and past participle procrastinated)
(intransitive) To delay taking action; to wait until later.
(transitive) To put off; to delay (something).
Synonyms
• (intransitive): delay, penelopize, stall
• (transitive): delay, postpone, put off, stall
Antonyms
• precrastinate
Source: Wiktionary
Pro*cras"ti*nate v. t. [imp. & p. p. Procrastinated; p. pr. & vb. n. Procrastinating.] Etym: [L. procrastinatus, p. p. of procrastinare to procrastinate; pro forward + crastinus of to-morrow, fr. cras to- morrow.]
Definition: To put off till to-morrow, or from day to day; to defer; to postpone; to delay; as, to procrastinate repentance. Dr. H. More. Hopeless and helpless Ægeon wend, But to procrastinate his lifeless end. Shak.
Syn.
– To postpone; adjourn; defer; delay; retard; protract; prolong.
Pro*cras"ti*nate, v. i.
Definition: To delay; to be dilatory. I procrastinate more than I did twenty years ago. Swift.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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