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delaysnounpl. of delay an instance or period of being prevented from going about one's businessthere was a delay for our boarding while the airplane unloaded incoming passengers detainments, detentions, holdbacks, holding patterns, holdups, waits deferments, deferrals, postponementsreprieves, respitesfoot-draggings, hesitations, lags, pauses, setbacks, slowdowns hastes, rushesdispatches, promptitudes to move or act slowlyshe ordered the kids to stop delaying and to get to bed crawls, creeps, dallies, dawdles, diddles, dillydallies, drags, lags, lingers, loiters, lollygags(also lallygags), mopes, pokes, shilly-shallies, tarries fiddles (around), fools around, messes around, monkeys (around), plays, potters (around), putters (around), trifleshangs (around or out), idles, loafs, lolls, loungesambles, eases, inches, lumbers, plods, saunters, shuffles, staggers, strollsdecelerates, slows (down or up)filibusters, procrastinates, stalls, temporizes drags one's feet(also drags one's heels), drops behind, falls behind, hangs fire, marks time, takes one's time barrels, bolts, careers, courses, dashes, flies, hastens, hotfoots (it), hurries, races, rips, rockets, runs, rushes, scoots, scuds, scurries, speeds, tears, whirls, whisks, whizzes, zips bowls, breezes, darts, humps, hurtles, hustles, scrambles, stampedesgallops, jogs, runs, sprints, trotsaccelerates, quickens, speeds (up)catches up, fast-forwards, outpaces, outruns, outstrips, overtakes to assign to a later timeour guests delayed their departure until after dinner defers, holds off (on), holds over, holds up, lays over, postpones, puts off, puts over, remits, shelves suspendshesitates, pauses, staysdetains, retards, slowsextends, lengthens, prolongs, protracts, stretches (out)waits acts, deals (with), decides (upon), does, works (on) |