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procrastinate


  3  definitions  found 
 
  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. 
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  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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