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What is another word for
postponing
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Verb
Present participle for to delay or postpone
Present participle for to stop, hinder or impede the flow or progress of
Present participle for to delay taking action
Present participle for to cancel, revert or abandon an activity or action
Present participle for to cancel (an event) due to excessive rain
Present participle for to stop earlier than intended
Present participle for to fail to care for or pay attention to
Adjective
Intended to cause delay or waste time
Slow in pace or speed
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Present participle for to delay or postpone
delaying
deferring
shelving
adjourning
suspending
rescheduling
remitting
tabling
staying
mothballing
proroguing
respiting
pigeonholing
stalling
continuing
procrastinating
forestaying
putting off
holding over
putting back
holding off
putting on ice
putting over
holding up
laying over
putting on hold
hanging fire
holding off on
putting in cold storage
carrying over
taking a rain check on
putting on the back burner
standing over
keeping in abeyance
putting on back burner
cooling it
giving a rain check
holding in abeyance
laying on the table
putting aside
setting aside
protracting
retarding
interrupting
holding
prolonging
intermitting
holding back
extending
pausing
detaining
withholding
recessing
prorogating
laying aside
putting to one side
giving rain check
reorganizing
US
rearranging
waiting
reorganising
UK
putting something off
reserving
leaving
filing
slowing
waiving
putting on the shelf
dismissing
sidelining
breaking off
hanging back
refraining from
sitting tight
rebooking
taking no action
avoiding doing something
playing a waiting game
setting back
putting in abeyance
hanging up
keeping from doing something
slowing up
changing the date
putting off the evil day
putting off the evil hour
holding your horses
biding your time
doing later
parking
retaining
suppressing
hanging
cooling
containing
reprieving
taking offline
temporizing
US
temporising
UK
neglecting
avoiding
renouncing
putting on one side
freezing
taking a raincheck
leaving to another time
slowing down
impeding
booking again
hindering
obstructing
lengthening
taking a breather from
putting on a back burner
blocking
checking
keeping back
keeping your shirt on
being patient
filling time
lying in wait
disbanding
tying up
inactivating
barring
taking a break
taking a breather
calling it a day
taking a recess
taking five
suspending proceedings
taking a rain check
putting into storage
shutting up
decommissioning
putting out of commission
packing away
calling a halt to
staving off
counting out
ruling out
more ❯
“I shall have to call to
postpone
my dental appointment tomorrow and that is a great disappointment.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to stop, hinder or impede the flow or progress of
retarding
hindering
impeding
hampering
inhibiting
curbing
obstructing
checking
restraining
restricting
handicapping
delaying
trammelling
trammeling
encumbering
slowing
hamstringing
fettering
arresting
clogging
stalling
detaining
interrupting
decelerating
staying
braking
cumbering
baulking
UK
balking
US
slackening
baffling
crimping
lessening
choking
retardating
miring
deferring
bogging
holding back
holding up
slowing down
interfering with
setting back
keeping back
slowing up
putting a brake on
bogging down
hanging up
shutting down
closing off
putting back
shutting off
taking down
backing off
choking off
letting up
throwing a spanner in the works
bringing to screeching halt
throwing a monkey wrench in the works of
getting in the way of
tempering
stunting
thwarting
foiling
stymieing
derailing
limiting
curtailing
reducing
preventing
halting
repressing
blocking
protracting
cramping
withholding
pausing
hobbling
crippling
stopping
shelving
shackling
deterring
remitting
proroguing
diminishing
lagging
abating
moderating
regulating
decreasing
handcuffing
intermitting
prolonging
frustrating
holding
barring
confining
loitering
qualifying
embogging
procrastinating
quieting
reefing
putting off
reining in
staving off
cutting down
anchoring it
keeping waiting
winding down
losing speed
putting the brakes on
cutting back
losing steam
holding off on
holding over
making late
letting down flaps
hitting the brakes
standing in the way of
hog-tying
desisting
surceasing
refraining
resting
constraining
bridling
embarrassing
forestalling
manacling
tying up
prohibiting
short-circuiting
borking
suppressing
controlling
stonewalling
counteracting
disrupting
opposing
averting
stifling
stemming
containing
interdicting
scuppering
cutting off
getting in the way
warding off
putting an end to
smothering
circumventing
burdening
tying
shutting out
countering
damming
interfering
avoiding
holding in
weighing down
defending against
heading off
staunching
forbidding
keeping
defeating
evading
debarring
disadvantaging
precluding
nullifying
circumnavigating
contravening
holding down
skirting
sidestepping
stemming the flow of
spoiling
steering clear of
keeping lid on
putting a stop to
sabotaging
sandbagging
neutralizing
US
suspending
inconveniencing
straitening
discontinuing
muffling
bottlenecking
crabbing
stanching
muzzling
fazing
impairing
entangling
governing
resisting
binding
neutralising
UK
taming
overloading
freezing
keeping under control
oppressing
dissuading from
fighting back
keeping in check
subduing
choking back
bringing to a standstill
boxing in
keeping a lid on
biting back
cramping one's style
holding off
putting at a disadvantage
placing at a disadvantage
nipping in the bud
reducing speed
saddling with
slamming on the anchors
easing up
straitjacketing
weakening
sidetracking
causing to wait
causing to stay
sinking
cooling
circumscribing
constricting
discomfiting
rattling
leashing
petering out
standing off
debilitating
chaining
disconcerting
incommoding
preventing from making progress
catching
getting bogged down
bothering
discommoding
charging
enmeshing
ensnaring
capturing
netting
snagging
sidelining
tethering
setting limits on
imposing limits on
getting out of
screwing up
fouling up
throttling
screening
obscuring
lousing up
strangling
complicating
reining
escaping
bypassing
beating
putting paid to
giving a hard time
making difficult
dragging your feet
pegging
disciplining
gagging
putting on the brakes
slamming on the brakes
swallowing
squelching
cutting short
terminating
tiing one's hands
throwing a spoke in the wheel of
scotching
overturning
entrammelling
measuring
ruling
entrammeling
hemming in
giving disadvantage
taking out
putting out of commission
deflecting
bottling up
discouraging
repulsing
checkmating
rebuffing
putting a limit on
monkeying with
wronging
ruining
crashing
unsettling
juking
putting the kibosh on
doing for
putting the stopper on
wrecking
stumping
taking wind out of
outwitting
upsetting
ditching
cooling off
cooling down
keeping within bounds
pulling in
slackening pace
buttoning up
keeping the lid on
keeping tight rein on
keeping a tight rein on
telling against
treating unfavourably
inflicting a handicap on
treating harshly
doing a disservice to
putting in an unfavourable position
treating unfairly
giving a disadvantage to
occluding
softening
playing for time
putting a spoke in someone's wheel
forfending
congesting
jamming
stuffing
clotting
closing
withstanding
loading
saddling
intercepting
dampening
barricading
blocking up
anticipating
obviating
staving
dulling
cushioning
slacking
keeping off
ruling out
fending off
turning aside
keeping at bay
blockading
clogging up
plugging up
gumming up
stopping up
bunging up
going slower
damping
depressing
slackening off
losing pace
slacking up
lumbering
absorbing
buffering
becoming slower
straining
weighting
freighting
lading
overtaxing
stressing
taxing
blanketing
outlawing
enjoining
warding
making slower
getting slower
reducing in speed
deadening
overwhelming
overburdening
toning down
damping down
keeping in
putting on brakes
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to delay taking action
procrastinating
dallying
delaying
stalling
dawdling
temporising
UK
temporizing
US
adjourning
deferring
dithering
havering
hesitating
prolonging
protracting
retarding
vacillating
wavering
cooling
goldbricking
lagging
poking
swithering
tarrying
waiting
dragging
lingering
loitering
pausing
staying
dilly-dallying
putting off
deferring action
dragging your feet
holding off
letting something slide
shilly-shallying
taking a raincheck
humming and hawing
playing for time
postponing action
hanging fire
putting off doing something
suspending action
using delaying tactics
playing a waiting game
kicking the can down the road
dragging your heels
equivocating
hedging
stonewalling
filibustering
prevaricating
diverting
distracting
hanging back
holding back
gaining time
buying time
taking one's time
beating around the bush
holding over
beating about the bush
avoiding the issue
idling
straggling
dillydallying
diddling
crawling
creeping
lollygagging
lallygagging
puttering
moping
taking your time
goofing off
lagging behind
lolling
trifling
slouching
faltering
fooling around
sitting around
whiling away time
staggering
plodding
ambling
tottering
marking time
waiting around
wasting time
killing time
staying put
falling behind
pottering round
pottering about
hanging around
hanging on
pottering around
hanging about
horsing around
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to cancel, revert or abandon an activity or action
scrubbing
cancelling
UK
canceling
US
dropping
scrapping
abandoning
aborting
revoking
repealing
rescinding
erasing
axing
abolishing
stopping
cutting
deleting
scratching
eliminating
discontinuing
recalling
calling
discarding
ditching
jettisoning
dumping
junking
forgetting
reverting
calling off
giving up
crying off
doing away with
throwing out
putting an end to
forgetting about
taking away
mothballing
nixing
turfing
putting off
putting on ice
withdrawing
removing
annulling
countermanding
wiping out
reversing
expunging
invalidating
voiding
quashing
nullifying
killing
abrogating
negating
obliterating
retracting
striking out
rubbing out
blotting out
taking out
effacing
disannulling
crosses out
excising
blue-penciling
blue-pencilling
setting aside
obviating
declaring null and void
editing out
annihilating
vacating
destroying
nulling
reneging
undoing
terminating
getting rid of
squashing
repudiating
overruling
overriding
dissolving
avoiding
cutting out
rolling back
vetoing
inking out
recanting
abating
blacking out
putting a line through
omitting
zapping
taking back
trashing
scratching out
overturning
striking down
scoring out
suspending
stamping out
bluing pencil
eradicating
backpedaling
US
backpedalling
UK
waiving
deleing
shelving
exterminating
vitiating
chopping
rendering invalid
torpedoing
calling back
blanking out
rooting out
cancelling out
canceling out
sweeping away
rendering null and void
cleaning up
blocking out
renouncing
excluding
ending
eliding
squelching
forswearing
extirpating
extinguishing
disclaiming
liquidating
abjuring
editing
lifting
shedding
snuffing out
stroking out
giving the chop
knocking something on the head
washing out
finishing off
overthrowing
rubbing
disowning
withcalling
breaking off
neutralizing
US
expurgating
backing out
finishing
dismissing
trimming
purging
dismantling
striking
rebutting
subverting
demolishing
making void
deracinating
superseding
rejecting
neutralising
UK
reneging on
decimating
wasting
razing
backing out of
weaselling out
weaseling out
dispensing with
chucking in
totalling
offing
totaling
declaring invalid
discharging
bringing to an end
Xing out
knocking off
shooting down
knocking out
whiting out
putting paid to
doing in
wiping off the map
casting aside
leaving out
wiping off the face of the earth
redacting
censoring
halting
counteracting
subtracting
countervailing
desisting
disallowing
redlining
altering
upsetting
backtracking on
disaffirming
declaring
backwatering
changing
disqualifying
oversetting
prostrating
downing
going back on
wiping from the face of the earth
weeding out
unsaying
getting off the hook
taking off
bowdlerizing
US
crossing through
calling in
excusing oneself
pulling out
begging off
wangling out
striking through
scrubbing out
scoring through
ruling against
crawling out of
pulling the plug
bringing down
knocking down
exscinding
slashing
laundering
exsecting
amputating
bowdlerising
UK
gutting
throwing over
opting out
worming out
standing down
wimping out
copping out
crapping out
relinquishing
calling all bets off
forgetting it
forgoing
denying
scissoring out
lopping off
cutting up
getting cold feet
counterordering
disavowing
devastating
desolating
kicking
betraying
yielding
surrendering
wrecking
levelling
UK
leveling
US
obscuring
ravaging
sinking
smashing
covering
defeating
desisting from
abdicating
marking out
destroying root and branch
rubbing off
removing all traces of
blowing to bits
taking apart
wiping off face of earth
blowing sky-high
KO'ing
forsaking
stopping using
stopping having
turning your back on
having done with
snipping
unpublishing
scoring
sanitizing
US
sterilizing
US
bleeping
decontaminating
cleaning
sanitising
UK
sterilising
UK
chucking
unloading
losing
cashiering
tossing
exorcising
UK
exorcizing
US
pitching
ruling out
passing up
getting shot of
throwing away
chucking out
sloughing off
throwing on the scrapheap
laying by
shucking off
disposing of
getting shut of
casting off
flinging off
pulling the plug on
deep-sixing
throwing overboard
eighty-sixing
flinging away
chucking away
suppressing
prohibiting
disestablishing
inhibiting
putting the kibosh on
closing down
putting kibosh on
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to cancel (an event) due to excessive rain
raining out
cancelling
UK
canceling
US
calling off
moving forward
moving on
putting back
raining off
Verb
▲
Present participle for to stop earlier than intended
cutting short
ending
finishing
stopping
halting
discontinuing
terminating
quitting
suspending
aborting
interrupting
checking
freezing
curtailing
breaking off
putting a stop to
bringing to an end
stopping dead
stopping short
calling a halt
breaking short
stopping cold
stopping in full flow
bringing to an untimely end
leaving unfinished
bringing to a premature end
Verb
▲
Present participle for to fail to care for or pay attention to
neglecting
overlooking
disregarding
ignoring
discounting
abandoning
bypassing
overpassing
shirking
skipping
dismissing
forsaking
avoiding
contemning
deferring
deserting
discarding
omitting
pretermitting
depreciating
eliding
evading
missing
overleaping
procrastinating
rejecting
scanting
underestimating
leaving something undone
passing over
glossing over
letting pass
paying no attention to
paying no heed to
paying no mind
setting aside
skimping on
brushing aside
brushing off
failing to look after
leaving alone
letting go
letting something slide
losing sight of
not caring for
procrastinating over
shrugging off
taking no notice of
thinking little of
not caring
passing up
paying little attention to
slurring over
tuning out
turning a deaf ear to
turning your back on
failing to care for
failing to provide for
living with
not troubling oneself
laughing off
keeping at arm's length
making light of
throwing to the winds
trifling with
keeping your distance
looking the other way
having nothing to do with
turning back on
Adjective
▲
Intended to cause delay or waste time
dilatory
delaying
stalling
dallying
deferring
dilly-dallying
procrastinating
shelving
tabling
temporising
UK
temporizing
US
time-wasting
dawdling
Fabian
lingering
loitering
tarrying
cunctative
moratory
putting off
hindering
obstructive
halting
retardant
Adjective
▲
Slow in pace or speed
slow-paced
slow
ponderous
slothful
sluggish
laggard
leaden
phlegmatic
plodding
crawling
creeping
dawdling
dilatory
lagging
lethargic
listless
measured
delaying
lackadaisical
leisurely
sleepy
snaillike
stagnant
tardy
torpid
deliberate
dreamy
drowsy
easy
heavy
idle
indolent
loitering
moderate
passive
procrastinating
slack
supine
tortoiselike
apathetic
gradual
inactive
inert
slow-going
slow-moving
slow-footed
unhurried
gentle
relaxed
steady
sedate
labored
US
sluggardly
comfortable
laboured
UK
tortoise-like
lazy
undemanding
unrushed
dragging
leaden-footed
poky
dallying
snail-paced
snail-like
languid
dillydallying
pokey
poking
late
laggy
behindhand
lollygagging
imperceptible
remiss
unhasty
lingering
slow and steady
languorous
lax
leisured
lifeless
dull
flagging
unpunctual
tarrying
painstaking
patient
shiftless
negligent
otiose
fainéant
work-shy
easygoing
drony
bone idle
laid-back
resting
loafing
lumpish
good-for-nothing
workshy
weary
tired
exhausted
unproductive
lacklustre
UK
debilitated
without energy
unenergetic
sedentary
somnific
weak
burned out
lymphatic
somnolent
slumberous
snoozy
spiritless
lackluster
US
fatigued
spent
enervated
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