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Definition of delay

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Delay (v. i.) To move slowly; to stop for a time; to linger; to tarry.

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Dally :: Dally (v. t.) To delay unnecessarily; to while away.

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

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

Cunctative :: Cunctative (a.) Slow; tardy; dilatory; causing delay.

Procrastination :: Procrastination (n.) The act or habit of procrastinating, or putting off to a future time; delay; dilatoriness..

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

Lag :: Lag (a.) Last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag end..

Protract :: Protract (n.) Tedious continuance or delay.

Detention :: Detention (n.) The state of being detained (stopped or hindered); delay from necessity.

Prolation :: Prolation (n.) The act of deferring; delay.

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

Loiter :: Loiter (v. i.) To be slow in moving; to delay; to linger; to be dilatory; to spend time idly; to saunter; to lag behind.

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

Impatience :: Impatience (n.) The quality of being impatient; want of endurance of pain, suffering, opposition, or delay; eagerness for change, or for something expected; restlessness; chafing of spirit; fretfulness; passion; as, the impatience of a child or an invalid..

Flagging :: Flagging (a.) Growing languid, weak, or spiritless; weakening; delaying..

Delay :: Delay (v. i.) To move slowly; to stop for a time; to linger; to tarry.

Remora :: Remora (n.) Delay; obstacle; hindrance.

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

Delayingly :: Delayingly (adv.) By delays.

Deviation :: Deviation (n.) The voluntary and unnecessary departure of a ship from, or delay in, the regular and usual course of the specific voyage insured, thus releasing the underwriters from their responsibility..