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Adjective

Extending or continuing over a relatively long time period

Tediously long in speaking

Without breaks, gaps or interruptions

Put off till a later time

Large in scale or size

To have made a quantity bigger

Past tense for to extend or draw out, typically a period or duration

Past tense for to preserve from extinction or oblivion

Past tense for to postpone or assign to a later time or date

Past tense for to delay taking action

Past tense for to make (someone or something) late or slow

Past tense for to jut or protrude in an outward direction

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Adjective

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Extending or continuing over a relatively long time period

of considerable length

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“It retreated in subsequent periods of prolonged dryness, leaving deposits of sediments.”

Adjective

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Tediously long in speaking

with the gift of the gab

able to talk the hind legs off a donkey

having kissed the blarney stone

having kissed the Blarney Stone

blessed with the gift of the gab

running on at the mouth

excessively communicative

full of air

having kissed the Blarney stone

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Adjective

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Without breaks, gaps or interruptions

regularized^US

regularised^UK

fossilized^US

fossilised^UK

more … than one can shake a stick at

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Adjective

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Put off till a later time

Adjective

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Large in scale or size

worth taking into account

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Verb

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To have made a quantity bigger

maximized^US

optimized^US

maximised^UK

optimised^UK

spiralled^UK

spiraled^US

emphasized^US

emphasised^UK

increased exponentially

went through the roof

gone through the roof

leaped^US

leapt^UK

modernized^US

modernised^UK

went through the ceiling

come of age

heated up

gone through the ceiling

het up

burst forth

increased dramatically

dramatized^US

favoured^UK

favored^US

revitalized^US

smouldered^UK

subsidized^US

broadened one's horizons

practised^UK

practiced^US

sent through the roof

acquired more of something

revitalised^UK

encouraged the growth of

subsidised^UK

dramatised^UK

made a big thing out of

smoldered^US

blew something out of all proportion

drove up

blew up out of all proportion

driven up

blown up out of all proportion

blown something out of all proportion

went from bad to worse

gone from bad to worse

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Verb

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Past tense for to extend or draw out, typically a period or duration

extended the duration of

made something go on and on

increased the length of

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“The heady aftertaste lingered just long enough for me to order another one to prolong the experience.”

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Past tense for to preserve from extinction or oblivion

favoured^UK

favored^US

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Past tense for to postpone or assign to a later time or date

taken a rain check on

put on back burner

put on the back burner

put off the evil hour

temporized^US

temporised^UK

put out of commission

suspended proceedings

taken a breather from

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Past tense for to delay taking action

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Past tense for to make (someone or something) late or slow

brought to screeching halt

hog-tied

threw a spanner in the works

thrown a spanner in the works

threw a monkey wrench in the works of

thrown a monkey wrench in the works of

Verb

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Past tense for to jut or protrude in an outward direction

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