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Impatient :: Impatient (a.) Not patient; not bearing with composure; intolerant; uneasy; fretful; restless, because of pain, delay, or opposition; eager for change, or for something expected; hasty; passionate; -- often followed by at, for, of, and under..

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

Forslack :: Forslack (v. t.) To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth.

Delay :: Delay (v.) A putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance.

Demur :: Demur (v. i.) To delay; to pause; to suspend proceedings or judgment in view of a doubt or difficulty; to hesitate; to put off the determination or conclusion of an affair.

Time :: Time (v. i.) To pass time; to delay.

Moration :: Moration (n.) A delaying tarrying; delay.

Cunctator :: Cunctator (n.) One who delays or lingers.

Pause :: Pause (n.) To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.

Thereupon :: Thereupon (adv.) Immediately; at once; without delay.

Dandle :: Dandle (v. t.) To play with; to put off or delay by trifles; to wheedle.

Delays :: Delays (pl. ) of Dela.

Instant :: Instant (a.) Closely pressing or impending in respect to time; not deferred; immediate; without delay.

Relay :: Relay (n.) A supply of horses placced at stations to be in readiness to relieve others, so that a trveler may proceed without delay..

Delay :: Delay (n.) To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time; to retard the motion, or time of arrival, of; as, the mail is delayed by a heavy fall of snow..

Promt :: Promt (superl.) Done or rendered quickly, readily, or immediately; given without delay or hesitation; -- said of conduct; as, prompt assistance..

Breathing :: Breathing (n.) Stop; pause; delay.

Temporize :: Temporize (v. t.) To delay; to procrastinate.

Suspension :: Suspension (n.) Especially, temporary delay, interruption, or cessation.

Passage :: Passage (v. i.) In parliamentary proceedings: (a) The course of a proposition (bill, resolution, etc.) through the several stages of consideration and action; as, during its passage through Congress the bill was amended in both Houses. (b) The advancement of a bill or other proposition from one stage to another by an affirmative vote; esp., the final affirmative action of the body upon a proposition; hence, adoption; enactment; as, the passage of the bill to its third reading was delayed..

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