Thesaurus: delay

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1. v. A putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance.
2. n. To put off; to defer; to procrastinate; to prolong the time of or before.
3. n. To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time; to retard the motion, or time of arrival, of; as, the mail is delayed by a heavy fall of snow.
4. n. To allay; to temper.
5. v. i. To move slowly; to stop for a time; to linger; to tarry.
6. n. time during which some action is awaited
7. n. the act of delaying; inactivity resulting in something being put off until a later time
8. v. cause to be slowed down or delayed
9. v. act later than planned, scheduled, or required
10. v. stop or halt
11. v. slow the growth or development of
12. A putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance. Without any delay, on the morrow I sat on the judgment seat. Acts xxv. 17. The government ought to be settled without the delay of a day. Macaulay. 1. To put off; to defer; to procrastinate; to prolong the time of or before. My lord delayeth his coming. Matt. xxiv. 48. 2. To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time; to retard the motion, or time of arrival, of; as, the mail is delayed by a heavy fall of snow. Thyrsis! whose artful strains have oft delayed The huddling brook to hear his madrigal. Milton. 3. To allay; to temper. [Obs.] The watery showers delay the raging wind. Surrey. To move slowly; to stop for a time; to linger; to tarry. There seem to be certain bounds to the quickness and slowness of the succession of those ideas, . . . beyond which they can neither delay nor hasten. Locke.