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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Procrastinate \Pro*cras"ti*nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Procrastinated}; p. pr & vb n. {Procrastinating}.] [L.
procrastinatus p. p. of procrastinare to procrastinate; pro
forward + crastinus of to-morrow, fr cras to-morrow.]
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 [AE]geon wend, But to
procrastinate his lifeless end --Shak.
Syn: To postpone; adjourn; defer; delay; retard; protract;
prolong.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Procrastinate \Pro*cras"ti*nate\, v. i.
To delay; to be dilatory.
I procrastinate more than I did twenty years ago.
--Swift.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
procrastinate
v : postpone doing what one should be doing "He did not want to
write the letter and procrastinated for days" [syn: {stall},
{drag one's feet}, {dilly-dally}]
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