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PROCRASTINATE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Postpone doing what one should be doing

Example:

He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days

Synonyms:

dilly-dally; dillydally; drag one's feet; drag one's heels; procrastinate; shillyshally; stall

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "procrastinate" is one way to...):

delay (act later than planned, scheduled, or required)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "procrastinate"):

procrastinate (postpone or delay needlessly)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sentence example:

They procrastinate a long time

Derivation:

procrastination (the act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or defering an action to a later time)

procrastinator (someone who postpones work (especially out of laziness or habitual carelessness))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Postpone or delay needlessly

Example:

He procrastinated the matter until it was almost too late

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "procrastinate" is one way to...):

delay (act later than planned, scheduled, or required)

dilly-dally; dillydally; drag one's feet; drag one's heels; procrastinate; shillyshally; stall (postpone doing what one should be doing)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

procrastination (slowness as a consequence of not getting around to it)

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