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temporizesverbpresent tense third-person singular of temporize formalto avoid making a decision or giving a definite answer in order to have more timePressured by voters on both sides of the issue, the congressmen temporized. filibusters, procrastinates, stallscrawls, creeps, dallies, dawdles, delays, diddles, dillydallies, drags, lags, lingers, loiters, lollygags(also lallygags), mopes, pokes, shilly-shallies, tarriesfiddles (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) bowls, breezes, darts, humps, hurtles, hustles, scrambles, stampedesgallops, jogs, runs, sprints, trotsaccelerates, quickens, speeds (up)catches up, fast-forwards, outpaces, outruns, outstrips, overtakesbarrels, bolts, careers, courses, dashes, flies, hastens, hotfoots (it), hurries, races, rips, rockets, runs, rushes, scoots, scuds, scurries, speeds, tears, whirls, whisks, whizzes, zips |