TEMPORISE

temporize, temporise

(verb) draw out a discussion or process in order to gain time; “The speaker temporized in order to delay the vote”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

temporise (third-person singular simple present temporises, present participle temporising, simple past and past participle temporised)

Alternative spelling of temporize

Anagrams

• importees, peristome, prosemite

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

18 January 2025

SHTIK

(noun) (Yiddish) a little; a piece; “give him a shtik cake”; “he’s a shtik crazy”; “he played a shtik Beethoven”


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