1-Stop Dictionary Reference

Protract

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

v. To draw out or lengthen in time; prolong: disputants who needlessly protracted the negotiations.

v. Mathematics To draw to scale by means of a scale and protractor; plot.

v. Anatomy To extend or protrude (a body part).

v. To draw out; to extend, especially in duration.

v. To use a protractor.

v. To draw or delineate.

v. To draw out or lengthen in time or (rarely) in space; to continue; to prolong

v. To put off to a distant time; to delay; to defer.

v. To draw to a scale; to lay down the lines and angles of, with scale and protractor; to plot.

v. To extend; to protrude; ; -- opposed to retract.

n. Tedious continuance or delay.

To draw out or lengthen in time; prolong: now chiefly in the past participle.

To lengthen out in space; extend in general.

To delay; defer; put off to a distant time.

In surveying, to draw to a scale; lay down, by means of a scale and protractor, the lines and angles of, as a piece of land; plot.

In anatomy, to draw forward (a part or an organ); extend (a part) anteriorly; have the action or effect of a protractor upon.

n. A lengthening out; delay; putting off.

v. lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer

"With support from Pakistan, the Taliban has managed to protract the fighting and create a strategic deadlock."

protracted protracting protracts

Words that are more generic or abstract

lengthen

protracted meeting

temporise spin out extend spin temporize

Words with the same meaning

delay defer plot extend prolong

Words with the same terminal sound

abstract act attacked attract backed