| 例句 |
protractingverbpresent participle of protract to make longerthe highway project was protracted by years of litigation dragging (out), drawing out, elongating, extending, lengthening, outstretching, prolonging, stretching amplifying, enlarging, expanding, increasingattenuating, thinning abbreviating, abridging, curtailing, cutting, cutting back, shortening decreasing, diminishing, lessening, reducingthickening |