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protractedverbpast tense of protract to make longerthe highway project was protracted by years of litigation dragged (out), drew out, elongated, extended, lengthened, outstretched, prolonged, stretched amplified, enlarged, expanded, increasedattenuated, thinned abbreviated, abridged, curtailed, cut, cut back, shortened decreased, diminished, lessened, reducedthickened |