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Procrastinate

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Verb

1. dilly-dally, dillydally, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, procrastinate, shillyshally, stall

postpone doing what one should be doing

Example Sentences:
'He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days'

2. procrastinate

postpone or delay needlessly

Example Sentences:
'He procrastinated the matter until it was almost too late'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Procrastinate

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verb
(usually intr)
to put off or defer (an action) until a later time; delay

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Procrastinate

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verb intransitive, verb transitiveWord forms: proˈcrastiˌnated or proˈcrastiˌnating
to put off doing (something unpleasant or burdensome) until a future time; esp., to postpone (such actions) habitually

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Procrastinate

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v. pro·cras·ti·nat·ed, pro·cras·ti·nat·ing, pro·cras·ti·nates
v.intr.
To put off doing something, especially out of habitual carelessness or laziness.
v.tr.
To postpone or delay needlessly.

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