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Abode :: Abode (n.) Act of waiting; delay.

Outright :: Outright (adv.) Immediately; without delay; at once; as, he was killed outright..

Protraction :: Protraction (n.) A drawing out, or continuing; the act of delaying the termination of a thing; prolongation; continuance; delay; as, the protraction of a debate..

Delayment :: Delayment (n.) Hindrance.

Delay :: Delay (n.) To put off; to defer; to procrastinate; to prolong the time of or before.

Dally :: Dally (v. i.) To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle..

Delays :: Delays (pl. ) of Dela.

Reprieve :: Reprieve (v. t.) To delay the punishment of; to suspend the execution of sentence on; to give a respite to; to respite; as, to reprieve a criminal for thirty days..

Relent :: Relent (n.) Stay; stop; delay.

Belated :: Belated (a.) Delayed beyond the usual time; too late; overtaken by night; benighted.

Respite :: Respite (n.) To delay or postpone; to put off.

Instantly :: Instantly (adv.) Without the least delay or interval; at once; immediately.

Protract :: Protract (v. t.) To put off to a distant time; to delay; to defer; as, to protract a decision or duty..

Retard :: Retard (v. t.) To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinder; as, to retard the march of an army; to retard the motion of a ship; -- opposed to accelerate..

Latered :: Latered (a.) Inclined to delay; dilatory.

Respite :: Respite (n.) The delay of appearance at court granted to a jury beyond the proper term.

Ready :: Ready (superl.) Fitted or arranged for immediate use; causing no delay for lack of being prepared or furnished.

Demur :: Demur (v. t.) To cause delay to; to put off.

Check :: Check (n.) A condition of interrupted or impeded progress; arrest; stop; delay; as, to hold an enemy in check..

Defer :: Defer (v. t.) To put off; to postpone to a future time; to delay the execution of; to delay; to withhold.

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