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What is another word for
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Verb
Present participle for to postpone or assign to a later time or date
Present participle for to cause a feeling of disgust or revulsion in
Present participle for to take off (something worn)
Present participle for to distract
Present participle for to postpone or assign to a later time or date
Putting someone off their stroke
Present participle for to annoy or irritate
Present participle for to cause (something) to flee by frightening it
Present participle for to decrease the motivation of a person or a group
Present participle for to talk to someone in order to dissuade them from doing something
Powering down
Present participle for to delay a situation until one is prepared
Persuading against
Present participle for to attempt to pass off a counterfeit or inferior product as genuine
Present participle for to oppose by expressing disapproval
Present participle for to delay taking action
Present participle for to divert one's mind or attention (to something else)
Present participle for fail to keep up with another or others in movement or development
Present participle for to extend or make longer
Present participle for make or become lighter in weight, pressure, or severity
Present participle for to decide or announce that (a planned event) will not take place
Present participle for to deprive of strength or efficacy
Present participle for to snub and reject an offer or suggestion
Present participle for to bring something somewhere (and leave it there)
Present participle for give up; let go
Present participle for deliberately avoiding providing a clear answer or statement
Present participle for to unload or empty out (from a container)
Noun
An act or instance of deferring or putting off
A feeling or state of being demotivated
Action of passing time in an unproductive manner
The act of retarding or delaying
Adjective
Slow to act
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Verb
▲
Present participle for to postpone or assign to a later time or date
deferring
delaying
postponing
remitting
shelving
holding over
holding up
laying over
putting over
adjourning
dallying
dawdling
dillydallying
holding off on
lagging
lingering
loitering
poking
proroguing
rescheduling
retarding
staying
suspending
tarrying
holding off
putting back
dragging one's feet
putting on hold
putting on ice
leaving to another time
putting on the back burner
setting back
putting across
getting across
keeping
saving
tabling
pigeonholing
mothballing
continuing
procrastinating
carrying over
forestaying
respiting
stalling
standing over
taking a rain check on
hanging fire
cooling it
keeping in abeyance
rearranging
changing the date
putting in cold storage
giving a rain check
putting on back burner
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to cause a feeling of disgust or revulsion in
disgusting
repelling
repulsing
revolting
sickening
nauseating
grossing out
offending
turning off
upsetting
making shudder
relucting
turning your stomach
making someone want to throw up
horrifying
disenchanting
making sick
turning one's stomach
making someone feel sick
alienating
filling with loathing
boring
turning someone off
displeasing
shocking
appalling
causing offence to
causing to feel nauseous
bothering
disturbing
making one sick
giving someone the creeps
giving you the creeps
leaving someone cold
turning someone's stomach
crawling
paining
deterring
irritating
discouraging
disinteresting
turning stomach
making your gorge rise
unhinging
unsettling
disordering
making flesh crawl
afflicting
turning
making someone feel nauseous
deranging
affecting
making your flesh creep
losing one's interest
outraging
squicking
cloying on
causing aversion
abominating
piquing
surfeiting
irking
palling
offending morals of
insulting
making you sick
grossing you out
putting you off
turning you off
making you shudder
giving a pain in neck
giving someone the heebie-jeebies
making you feel sick
making you heave
putting someone off
discomposing
unbalancing
undoing
scaring
terrifying
frightening
haunting
freaking out
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to take off (something worn)
removing
doffing
dousing
peeling off
shrugging off
taking off
discarding
slipping out of
divesting yourself of
stripping off
shedding
unclothing
uncovering
baring
denuding
denudating
divesting
shucking
climbing out of
stripping
peeling
pulling off
flinging off
throwing off
disrobing
putting aside
flinging aside
casting off
divesting oneself of
slipping off
undressing
unbuttoning
undoing
stripping naked
unfastening
unzipping
dismantling
unattiring
uncovering yourself
slipping
exposing
laying bare
disarraying
stripteasing
husking
divesting someone of their clothes
shocking
getting out of
getting off
divesting oneself
exposing yourself
taking your clothes off
revealing oneself
denuding oneself
exposing oneself
baring yourself
shedding your clothes
divesting yourself of your clothes
unclothing yourself
taking it off
getting undressed
removing your clothes
taking off your clothes
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to distract
confusing
disconcerting
distracting
diverting
flustering
putting somebody off his or her stride
upsetting
rattling
disturbing
confounding
discomposing
perplexing
unsettling
fazing
perturbing
throwing
discomfiting
agitating
nonplussing
unnerving
bothering
dismaying
abashing
throwing off balance
bewildering
troubling
disquieting
psyching out
ruffling
worrying
discountenancing
shaking
discombobulating
flurrying
flummoxing
shaking up
distressing
alarming
baffling
embarrassing
daunting
frustrating
taking aback
puzzling
getting to
discouraging
mortifying
demoralizing
US
mystifying
unhinging
appalling
muddling
vexing
demoralising
UK
dumbfounding
putting someone off their stroke
unbalancing
deterring
frightening
disarranging
undoing
disheartening
scaring
surprising
making anxious
making uneasy
concerning
discomforting
distempering
hagriding
frazzling
ailing
derailing
fussing
throwing off
spooking
weirding out
freaking out
addling
putting out
startling
overwhelming
dispiriting
intimidating
disorienting
disordering
horrifying
disorganizing
discommoding
jumbling
graveling
gravelling
shocking
destabilizing
US
jolting
exasperating
disarraying
bugging
deranging
terrorizing
US
terrifying
exercising
alaruming
afflicting
aggravating
chagrining
putting out of countenance
fouling up
panicking
unmanning
rummaging
fuddling
disrupting
depressing
making nervous
bamboozling
pulling the rug from under
making someone scratch their head
putting into a flap
destabilising
UK
throwing into disorder
rattling one's cage
messing up
chilling
screwing up
mixing up
causing someone to lose their composure
befuddling
chillin
putting someone off their stride
terrorising
UK
pulling the rug out from under
throwing into confusion
throwing into a tizz
mucking up
annoying
saddening
harassing
awing
aweing
cowing
overawing
astonishing
catching somebody off balance
dizzying
catching somebody unawares
affecting
irritating
stirring up
working up
dashing
disappointing
subduing
filling with consternation
knocking sideways
putting the wind up someone
throwing into a tizzy
disenchanting
knocking for six
paralyzing
US
disgruntling
lousing up
pothering
snafuing
giving someone a turn
letting down
affrighting
paralysing
UK
disillusioning
dejecting
browbeating
bullying
consternating
tormenting
sapping
thwarting
despairing
torturing
irking
blinding
pouring cold water on
throwing cold water on
oppressing
agonising
UK
pestering
chafing
plaguing
causing disquiet to
agonizing
US
besetting
fretting
provoking
bedeviling
US
persecuting
nagging
bedevilling
UK
beleaguering
aggrieving
beating
bemusing
stumping
dishevelling
disheveling
mussing
rumpling
posing
shuffling
tousling
dislocating
scrambling
mazing
disjointing
hashing
tumbling
obfuscating
snowing
causing confusion in
stopping
wildering
obscuring
throwing a spanner in the works of
stirring
mulling
breaking up
muddying
amazing
profundicating
intruding on
causing turmoil in
muddying the waters
making a mess of
flooring
getting
foxing
cutting short
fogging
turning upside-down
upsetting the apple cart
convulsing
spoiling
befogging
buffaloing
throwing into disarray
interfering with
wondering
playing havoc with
setting someone thinking
bollixing
stumbling
foiling
throwing a monkey wrench in the works of
complicating
flabbergasting
downing
needling
turning
displacing
dementing
sickening
throwing into uproar
catching off balance
balking
US
hindering
putting someone off
baulking
UK
taking by surprise
stopping someone in their tracks
upsetting apple cart
setting someone back on their heels
causing to be at a stand
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to postpone or assign to a later time or date
hindering
impeding
obstructing
preventing
delaying
postponing
deferring
shelving
adjourning
putting on ice
suspending
putting on the back burner
holding off
mothballing
putting back
tabling
remitting
holding over
holding up
putting on hold
proroguing
taking a rain check on
putting in cold storage
staying
rescheduling
putting over
respiting
setting aside
stalling
holding in abeyance
pigeonholing
holding off on
holding back
putting aside
interrupting
laying on the table
retarding
stopping
continuing
holding
laying over
intermitting
putting on back burner
halting
checking
blocking
procrastinating
putting to one side
arresting
discontinuing
breaking off
protracting
prolonging
dissolving
terminating
detaining
withholding
bringing to an end
restraining
curbing
pausing
avoiding
slowing
laying aside
carrying over
ceasing
keeping in abeyance
giving rain check
cutting short
stonewalling
calling a halt to
hampering
thwarting
evading
inhibiting
stymieing
trammelling
trammeling
frustrating
extending
fettering
hanging fire
encumbering
sidelining
hamstringing
shackling
slowing up
standing over
filibustering
interfering with
slowing down
disbanding
recessing
ending
reserving
prorogating
waiving
restricting
filing
breaking up
barring
putting in abeyance
putting on the shelf
derailing
dismissing
baulking
UK
hanging up
staving off
cramping
hobbling
braking
standing in the way of
tying up
handcuffing
putting a brake on
putting a stop to
putting off the evil day
bridling
putting off the evil hour
keeping back
shutting down
borking
balking
US
hog-tying
clogging
freezing
setting back
doing later
parking
retaining
suppressing
hanging
reprieving
refusing
rebuffing
cooling
containing
temporizing
US
taking a raincheck
giving a rain check
dallying
temporising
UK
taking offline
stilling
leaving
renouncing
neglecting
catching
putting on one side
putting on the bank burner
waiting
resisting
slowing pedal
limiting
forestalling
inactivating
quitting
omitting
stifling
breaking
cutting
refraining
keeping from
severing
canceling
US
cancelling
UK
short-circuiting
drawing up
handicapping
not moving
standing
sabotaging
bringing up
coming to a standstill
embarrassing
petering out
standing off
pulling up
fetching up
fencing
manacling
preventing from making progress
laying off
counting out
ruling out
leaving off
putting an end to
cutting off
bringing to a close
taking a breather from
putting on a back burner
bringing to a standstill
bringing to a halt
putting into storage
decommissioning
putting out of commission
packing away
shutting up
playing for time
employing delaying tactics
buying time
wasting time
kicking the can down the road
suspending proceedings
taking a break
knocking off
finishing
letting up
taking a breather
taking a recess
coming to an end
taking five
calling a halt
taking a rain check
retardating
foiling
calling it a day
repressing
crippling
crimping
bringing to screeching halt
throwing a spanner in the works of
closing off
shutting off
choking off
bogging down
getting in the way of
cumbering
deterring
choking
throwing a monkey wrench in the works of
taking down
making late
backing off
confining
giving the slip
slipping away from
fobbing off
getting away from
giving the runaround
running from
lengthening
circumventing
defeating
constraining
counteracting
stemming
heading off
nipping in the bud
opposing
reducing
prohibiting
averting
decelerating
putting the kibosh on
shutting out
baffling
countering
slackening
curtailing
staunching
intercepting
scotching
spoiling
putting paid to
dead-ending
scuppering
reining in
interdicting
warding off
vacillating
hanging back
dropping
beating
controlling
closing
damming
hesitating
faltering
immobilizing
US
checkmating
decreasing
miring
lessening
discouraging
congesting
crabbing
occluding
moderating
stuffing
loitering
regulating
stumping
smothering
belaying
obscuring
jamming
immobilising
UK
sandbagging
keeping waiting
nullifying
circumnavigating
upsetting
crashing
ruining
stopping up
skirting
sidestepping
pulling in
weighing down
holding in
holding down
defending against
steering clear of
getting in the way
cramping one's style
stemming the flow of
bringing to a stop
bringing to standstill
coming to a stop
coming to a halt
plugging up
pulling the plug on
sinking
clotting
scrubbing
bracing
sidetracking
fixing
inconveniencing
getting out of
getting around
withstanding
keeping
causing to wait
causing to stay
overloading
escaping
bypassing
taking out of play
putting the brakes on
picking off
acting against
crossing
disadvantaging
incommoding
dissuading
quashing
holding on
overturning
snookering
forbidding
debarring
gumming up
oppressing
bothering
discommoding
charging
discomfiting
arriving
disrupting
deflecting
tempering
stunting
bitting
warding
tabooing
enjoining
outlawing
putting on brakes
keeping in
putting an stop to
fazing
puzzling
disconcerting
mystifying
confounding
unsettling
juking
doing for
putting the stopper on
wrecking
keeping lid on
taking wind out of
outwitting
ditching
rendering powerless
destroying
saddling with
making difficult
dashing
disappointing
hanging around
sitting tight
hanging about
nonplussing
fending off
diminishing
lagging
abating
interfering
flummoxing
embogging
quieting
reefing
qualifying
throttling
bringing an end to
cornering
screening
complicating
reining
neutralizing
US
reaching a standstill
hauling up
drawing to a halt
getting there
putting out of business
putting out of action
wiping out
bringing to naught
bringing someone to their knees
plugging
throwing monkey wrench in
throwing a curve
upsetting the apple cart
swallowing
squelching
muffling
adopting Fabian tactics
barricading
sealing
caulking
bottlenecking
fighting back
governing
cutting down
cutting back
letting down flaps
winding down
losing steam
anchoring it
losing speed
putting the brakes on
hitting the brakes
bottling up
repulsing
choking back
neutralising
UK
taming
filling up
blockading
clogging up
closing up
filling
closing out
blocking out
throwing a spanner in the works
giving the run around
throwing a monkey wrench into
monkeying with
keeping in check
packing
jamming up
stanching
blocking up
choking up
bunging up
dawdling
bogging
loafing
downing
poking
flagging
slackening pace
keeping under control
keeping a lid on
biting back
blocking off
bunging
putting a spoke in someone's wheel
stoppering
bottling
muzzling
gagging
concluding
elapsing
lapsing
passing
determining
expiring
going
dying
wavering
teetering
dithering
scrupling
wabbling
wobbling
staggering
balancing
limping
stumbling
whiffling
winding up
cutting out
desisting from
giving over
packing in
winking out
packing up
blowing the whistle on
putting a cork in
coming to rest
drawing to a stand
coming to a close
closing down
shilly-shallying
wiggle-waggling
holding at bay
drawing to a close
stemming the flow
more ❯
Verb
▲
Putting someone off their stroke
agitating
disturbing
making nervous
unsettling
upsetting
awing
aweing
cowing
daunting
deterring
intimidating
outfacing
outstaring
putting off balance
staring down
abashing
alarming
disconcerting
discouraging
dismaying
frightening
scaring
standing up to
subduing
terrifying
unnerving
browbeating
buffaloing
pressuring
pressurising
UK
pressurizing
US
terrorising
UK
terrorizing
US
putting someone off their stroke
Verb
▲
Present participle for to annoy or irritate
ruffling
annoying
irritating
nettling
vexing
disturbing
agitating
harassing
irking
upsetting
confusing
disconcerting
flustering
rattling
troubling
unsettling
worrying
angering
bothering
exasperating
unnerving
disquieting
flurrying
needling
peeving
perturbing
discomfiting
aggravating
bugging
discomposing
discountenancing
fazing
riling
stirring
affecting
hassling
narking
throwing
chafing
discombobulating
eating
frosting
galling
getting
getting to
grating
griping
itching
making nervous
miffing
niggling
persecuting
piquing
rasping
shaking up
spiting
putting out
throwing off balance
abrading
blustering
browbeating
bullying
burning up
cowing
disrupting
distressing
exciting
flooring
flummoxing
fretting
frilling
fuddling
furbelowing
intimidating
provoking
stumping
tormenting
wearing
getting across
hacking off
putting someone off their stroke
winding up
causing someone to lose their composure
putting into a flap
throwing into a tizz
rattling one's cage
throwing into tizzy
Verb
▲
Present participle for to cause (something) to flee by frightening it
frightening away
chasing off
deterring
discouraging
driving away
frightening
scaring away
scaring off
warning off
dissuading
frightening off
preventing
disinclining
appalling
scaring
terrifying
alarming
startling
shocking
terrorizing
US
affrighting
petrifying
intimidating
daunting
unnerving
panicking
horrifying
spooking
frighting
alaruming
agitating
scarifying
discomforting
curdling the blood
scaring to death
terrorising
UK
striking terror into
dismaying
cowing
disconcerting
chillin
chilling
aweing
awing
disturbing
perturbing
browbeating
disquieting
bulldozing
disheartening
stiffing
unhinging
demoralizing
US
astounding
worrying
repelling
fazing
scaring stiff
demoralising
UK
making blood run cold
freezing your blood
making one's blood run cold
scaring the bejesus out of
making teeth chatter
chilling to the bone
getting the wind up
making your blood run cold
making your hair stand on end
throwing into a panic
throwing into a fright
making one's hair stand on end
scaring the daylights out of
making someone jump out of his skin
putting the wind up someone
surprising
making one's teeth chatter
scaring the living daylights out of someone
scaring the pants off of
unmanning
flustering
shaking
ruffling
throwing into panic
rattling
scaring witless
upsetting
throwing into a blue funk
giving someone goose pimples
making someone jump out of their skin
giving someone the heebie-jeebies
making one's flesh creep
filling with fear
scaring someone out of their wits
scaring the pants off
giving one the creeps
chilling someone to the marrow
putting the fear of God into
putting the wind up
scaring the living daylights out of
scaring someone half to death
Verb
▲
Present participle for to decrease the motivation of a person or a group
demotivating
daunting
demoralising
UK
demoralizing
US
deterring
discouraging
disheartening
dispiriting
dissuading
intimidating
unnerving
frightening
appalling
inhibiting
warning
cautioning
hindering
making nervous
making anxious
scaring off
talking out of
making worried
cowing
depressing
unmanning
crushing
dismaying
dejecting
disappointing
dashing
casting down
chillin
frustrating
chilling
overawing
making despondent
making downhearted
alarming
disparaging
abashing
psyching out
prostrating
deprecating
scaring
troubling
afflicting
trying
vexing
bullying
beating down
dampening
bothering
repressing
aweing
drooping
causing to lose heart
confusing
awing
irking
distressing
weighing
putting a damper on
breaking one's heart
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to talk to someone in order to dissuade them from doing something
talking out of
advisingagainst
changing somebody's mind
deterring
discouraging
dissuading
swaying
turning against
disinclining
turning aside
warning off
dehorting
urging against
scaring off
sidetracking
diverting
preventing
inhibiting
stopping
hindering
throwing cold water on
throwing a wet blanket on
counselling
UK
expostulating
deprecating
warning
throwing off
exhorting
arguing out of
turning off
persuading not to
counseling
US
chickening out
crying out against
thwarting
leaning on
remonstrating
pricking
advising not to
expostulating against
cautioning against
derailing
persuading against
pouring cold water on
fazing
disadvising
urging not to
more ❯
Verb
▲
Powering down
deactivating
extinguishing
flicking off
powering down
shutting off
switching off
tripping
turning out
cutting
disconnecting
killing
unplugging
Verb
▲
Present participle for to delay a situation until one is prepared
playing for time
delaying
gaining time
hanging back
hanging fire
holding back
procrastinating
stalling
temporising
UK
temporizing
US
dithering
equivocating
filibustering
hedging
hesitating
prevaricating
stonewalling
using delaying tactics
beating about the bush
tergiversating
paltering
humming and hawing
stalling for time
deferring
balking
US
tarrying
baulking
UK
playing a waiting game
avoiding committing oneself
avoiding making a decision
taking your time
using Fabian tactics
kicking the can down the road
lying
caviling
US
shuffling
cavilling
UK
dodging
quibbling
flannelling
pussyfooting
deceiving
shilly-shallying
flanneling
sidestepping
fencing
shifting
fabricating
fibbing
vacillating
evading
conning
misrepresenting
fudging
jiving
misspeaking
dissembling
exaggerating
misstating
distorting
inventing
belying
garbling
falsifying
beating around the bush
sidestepping the issue
dodging the issue
giving a false colour to
putting on
ducking the issue
parrying questions
stretching the truth
begging the question
more ❯
Verb
▲
Persuading against
deterring from
discouraging from
dissuading from
persuading against
stopping
advisingagainst
arguing out of
diverting from
urging against
Verb
▲
Present participle for to attempt to pass off a counterfeit or inferior product as genuine
palming off
foisting
palming
wishing
fobbing off
imposing
passing off
inserting fraudulently
pawning off
sneaking in
compelling to accept
pulling a fast one
ramming down one's throat
Verb
▲
Present participle for to oppose by expressing disapproval
discouraging
preventing
inhibiting
checking
deterring
curbing
hindering
dissuading
stopping
averting
obstructing
suppressing
discountenancing
controlling
deprecating
disadvising
disfavouring
disfavoring
diverting
fending off
frightening
impeding
indisposing
interfering
opposing
quieting
repressing
restraining
scaring
shaking
staving off
warding off
warning
withholding
holding back
holding off
keeping back
putting a stop to
talking out of
throwing cold water on
turning off
pouring cold water on
putting a damper on
prohibiting
keeping from
blocking
intercepting
halting
staying
baulking
UK
arresting
foiling
hampering
forestalling
precluding
shutting out
keeping
obviating
turning aside
damping
frustrating
counteracting
thwarting
heading off
pre-empting
helping
debarring
letting
saving
nipping in the bud
forfending
chillin
cooling
ruling out
acting like a wet blanket
dampening
chilling
balking
US
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to delay taking action
procrastinating
dallying
delaying
stalling
dawdling
temporising
UK
temporizing
US
adjourning
deferring
dithering
havering
hesitating
postponing
prolonging
protracting
retarding
vacillating
wavering
cooling
goldbricking
lagging
poking
swithering
tarrying
waiting
dragging
lingering
loitering
pausing
staying
dilly-dallying
deferring action
dragging your feet
holding off
letting slide
shilly-shallying
taking a raincheck
dragging one's feet
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
Verb
▲
Present participle for to divert one's mind or attention (to something else)
diverting
detracting
distracting
sidetracking
abstracting
deflecting
shifting
drawing
leading away
calling off
circumlocuting
detaching
deterring
disadvising
discouraging
disengaging
dissuading
disturbing
offleading
stalling
throwing off
drawing away
attracting attention
catching flies
getting around
turning away
bending the rules
leading astray
sending on a wild-goose chase
misleading
turning aside
unbalancing
causing to lose concentration
calling away
averting
heading off
Verb
▲
Present participle for fail to keep up with another or others in movement or development
lagging
delaying
lingering
dawdling
loitering
dallying
trailing
idling
sauntering
straggling
tarrying
hanging back
shilly-shallying
crawling
creeping
decreasing
diddling
dillydallying
dilly-dallying
diminishing
dithering
dragging
dropping
failing
falling back
falling behind
flagging
lallygagging
lollygagging
moping
poking
dragging behind
ebbing
slackening
trailing behind
waning
faltering
hobbling
inching
jellying
limping
lounging
moving slowly
plodding
procrastinating
retarding
shuffling
slouching
slowing
staggering
staying
tailing
tooling
trudging
bringing up the rear
dropping behind
falling off
inching along
slowing up
dragging one's feet
losing strength
getting no place fast
dragging your feet
hanging about
pausing
hanging around
taking your time
frittering away
fooling around
wasting time
lolling
waiting
loafing
ambling
killing time
hesitating
stalling
drifting
trifling
puttering
hanging out
warming a chair
sitting around
taking one's time
vacillating
meandering
lagging behind
biding
boondoggling
goofing off
remaining
whiling away time
strolling
fooling with
whiling away
trifling with
horsing around
playing games with
fooling about
temporizing
US
stopping
temporising
UK
filibustering
lodging
resting
hanging round
skulking
moseying
mooching
staying put
losing time
stopping over
goofing around
halting
hovering
lurking
wandering
traipsing
shambling
sloughing
going slowly
rambling
dabbling
holding the phone
passing time
pottering
pottering about
diddle-daddling
toddling
marking time
hanging fire
pottering around
pottering round
frittering time away
scrounging around
shlepping along
bumming around
sitting on one's butt
tottering
lumbering
walking slowly
taking a stroll
strolling along
taking it easy
following
straying
roaming
roving
dragging oneself
dragging yourself
tagging along
dragging along
tagging along behind
stumbling
doddering
waddling
tramping
slogging
stamping
galumphing
tromping
floundering
lumping
clumping
barging
scuffing
stomping
scuffling
stumping
changing
flogging
shifting
lurching
pounding
walking
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to extend or make longer
protracting
extending
prolonging
lengthening
continuing
elongating
dragging out
drawing out
outstretching
stretching
stretching out
perpetuating
sustaining
carrying on
cooling
deferring
delaying
drawing
expanding
keeping up
making longer
padding
postponing
procrastinating
prolongating
spinning out
stalling
strining out
extending the duration of
going on with
keeping something going
holding off
holding up
keeping going
dragging on
putting on hold
Verb
▲
Present participle for make or become lighter in weight, pressure, or severity
lightening
decreasing
lessening
reducing
allaying
alleviating
assuaging
diminishing
easing
mitigating
relieving
making lighter
moderating
palliating
softening
tempering
calming
soothing
subduing
ameliorating
attenuating
changing
comforting
diluting
disburdening
disencumbering
emptying
eradicating
extenuating
facilitating
freeing
jettisoning
levitating
mollifying
removing
shifting
taking
thinning
unburdening
unloading
uplighting
upraising
cutting down
making less
pouring out
reducing weight
throwing out
taking a load off
unlading
offloading
unpacking
taking off
taking away
off-loading
removing cargo
discharging
unshipping
unstowing
carrying away
Verb
▲
Present participle for to decide or announce that (a planned event) will not take place
cancelling
UK
canceling
US
scrapping
aborting
abandoning
dropping
scratching
scrubbing
axing
calling
mothballing
nixing
turfing
postponing
calling off
crying off
forgetting about
putting on ice
discontinuing
stopping
rescinding
repealing
revoking
shelving
ending
halting
terminating
ceasing
quitting
recalling
ditching
giving up
interrupting
laying off
cutting off
packing in
breaking off
redlining
checking
arresting
abolishing
finishing
nullifying
bringing
suspending
discarding
cutting
eliminating
forgetting
jettisoning
desisting
taking away
throwing out
doing away with
junking
dumping
pulling the plug on
calling a halt
stopping midstream
knocks it off
cutting short
pulling up
calling it quits
erasing
putting an end to
deleting
relinquishing
breaking
forgoing
kicking
forsaking
shunning
ignoring
remitting
forfeiting
sacrificing
shaking
divorcing
jilting
laying off of
knocking off
parting from
leaving off
retiring from
parting with
packing up
withdrawing from
breaking up
dispensing with
desisting from
giving over
resigning from
eighty-sixing
breaking with
dusting off
cutting out
turning your back on
shutting off
finishing with
wiping out
having done with
throwing up
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to deprive of strength or efficacy
stultifying
boring
deadening
dulling
numbing
benumbing
stupefying
hebetating
making bored
boring rigid
boring stupid
boring to death
putting to sleep
Verb
▲
Present participle for to snub and reject an offer or suggestion
rebuffing
declining
refusing
rejecting
spurning
cutting
slighting
snubbing
repudiating
repulsing
cold-shouldering
disdaining
dismissing
ignoring
repelling
turning down
checking
denying
discouraging
resisting
stiff-arming
brushing off
snouting
chiding
crossing
cutting dead
disallowing
disregarding
freezing out
neglecting
opposing
putting down
rebuking
reproving
knocking back
looking right through
beating off
fending off
giving someone the brush-off
holding off
passing up
sending away
staving off
telling off
warding off
giving someone the go-by
giving the brush
keeping at bay
lashing out at
not hearing of
giving the cold shoulder
keeping at a distance
keeping at arm's length
putting in one's place
telling someone where to get off
Verb
▲
Present participle for to bring something somewhere (and leave it there)
dropping
bringing
carrying
delivering
taking
transporting
unloading
conveying
leaving
allowing to alight
Verb
▲
Present participle for give up; let go
waiving
relinquishing
renouncing
abandoning
surrendering
yielding
ceding
rejecting
giving up
abdicating
abjuring
disregarding
dropping
forsaking
refusing
resigning
sacrificing
deferring
forgoing
postponing
putting aside
remitting
spurning
allowing
delaying
disclaiming
disowning
dispensing with
doing without
granting
leaving
neglecting
proroguing
removing
reneging
reserving
setting aside
shelving
staying
suspending
tabling
signing away
turning down
handing over
holding off
holding up
refraining from
turning over
Verb
▲
Present participle for deliberately avoiding providing a clear answer or statement
weaseling
US
weaselling
UK
hedging
equivocating
waffling
tergiversating
fudging
pussyfooting
dodging
ducking
sidestepping
circumventing
eluding
shirking
baulking
UK
balking
US
eschewing
shucking
fleeing
reneging
welshing
getting around
copping out
hemming and hawing
laying low
slipping out
sneaking away
beating around the bush
giving the runaround
dancing around an issue
worming one's way out of
Verb
▲
Present participle for to unload or empty out (from a container)
unloading
emptying
discharging
dumping
clearing
dropping
evacuating
draining
ejecting
jettisoning
voiding
tipping
expelling
disgorging
shedding
casting
emptying out
pouring out
clearing out
off-loading
throwing out
tipped out
forcing out
spewing out
Noun
▲
An act or instance of deferring or putting off
deferment
delay
postponement
suspension
adjournment
moratorium
stay
arrest
deferral
interruption
pause
rescheduling
respite
shelving
continuation
grace
put-off
putting back
reprieve
tabling
rain check
rearrangement
prorogation
pigeonholing
mothballing
procrastination
deferring
remission
stopping
halt
continuance
protraction
carrying over
reorganizing
US
rearranging
holdup
hiatus
layoff
extension
letup
abeyance
discontinuation
recess
abeyancy
break
dissolving
termination
dissolution
disbandment
halting
time-out
breather
stoppage
rest
breaking off
reorganising
UK
intermission
temporary cessation
let up
time out
knocking off
taking five
suspension of proceedings
interlude
interval
gap
stop
wait
lull
check
downtime
cessation
interim
interregnum
lacuna
breathing space
lapse
standstill
discontinuance
spell
discontinuity
interstice
entr'acte
deadlock
freeze
dormancy
stopover
quiescence
doldrums
latency
end
gridlock
let-up
hold-up
hiccup
parenthesis
hiccough
pausation
cutoff
suspense
impasse
finish
hesitation
ending
extra time
standoff
space
caesura
hitch
logjam
holding pattern
stalemate
period
stand
deep freeze
term
cold storage
suspended animation
comma
span
five
layover
time lag
break-off
surcease
meanwhile
meantime
breathing spell
obstruction
hindrance
dead end
Mexican standoff
transferal
change of date
embargo
stay of execution
ban
prohibition
truce
episode
lagging
time gap
time warp
intervening period
intervening time
intermezzo
idyll
smoko
tie
draw
allowance
leeway
grace period
stop-off
pause in the action
disturbance
obstacle
disruption
sojourn
visit
time
season
passage
course
stretch
half-time
catch-22
stand-off
disconnection
intrusion
severance
impediment
passing
playtime
ten
while
dead heat
armistice
rupture
disuniting
blackout
separation
division
rift
split
breach
quiescency
break in your journey
closing
checkmate
ceasing
arrestment
close
shutoff
expiration
conclusion
suppression
cease
closure
offset
shutdown
closedown
more time
additional time
longer period
increased time
inhibition
blockage
hole
desisting
remaining
block
terminating
deterring
holding
lessening
staying
prevention
restraint
checking
stalling
restraining
inaction
full stop
breath
reduction
beat
dead stop
communication breakdown
decrease
abatement
easing
hush
silence
lapse of time
stillness
moderation
diminution
dwindling
slackening
waning
break off
happy hour
rest period
awkward moment
coffee break
relaxation
ebb
ebbing
alleviation
amelioration
dying down
retardation
release
cutback
more ❯
Noun
▲
A feeling or state of being demotivated
demotivation
demoralisation
UK
demoralization
US
deterrence
discouragement
disheartenment
dissuasion
Noun
▲
Action of passing time in an unproductive manner
timepass
doing nothing useful
procrastination
twiddling one's thumbers
deferment
deferral
doing nothing
pastime
postponement
stalling
waste of time
wasting time
hesitation
dilatoriness
temporizing
US
delay
dithering
slackness
shilly-shallying
slowness
dilly-dallying
vacillation
adjournment
temporization
humming and hawing
kicking the can down the road
temporising
UK
delaying tactics
Noun
▲
The act of retarding or delaying
retardation
slowdown
deceleration
braking
downshift
stoppage
letup
wait
hindrance
impediment
setback
holdup
obstruction
stall
detainment
hangup
delay
detention
lag
retardment
suspension
check
interval
jam
bind
downtime
filibuster
holding
logjam
obstacle
problem
prorogation
stay
stop
surcease
showstopper
adjournment
cunctation
dawdling
demurral
discontinuation
impedance
lingering
loitering
moratorium
postponement
procrastination
remission
reprieve
tarrying
hold-up
tie-up
holding pattern
cooling-off period
slowing down
slowing
checking
holdback
interruption
lull
halt
intermission
interlude
hold
ado
break
slowing up
freeze
curb
encumbrance
inhibition
slow-up
go-slow
block
pause
blockage
fetter
interference
gap
retard
snag
trammel
losing speed
waiting period
time wasted
time lag
period of waiting
bottleneck
difficulty
snafu
glitch
hitch
trouble
gridlock
traffic jam
stonewalling
delaying
speechifying
blocking
speechification
talkathon
opposition
kicking the can down the road
delaying tactics
holding the floor
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Slow to act
dilatory
slow
sluggish
tardy
slack
unhurried
dallying
laggard
snail-like
backward
delaying
lax
lazy
lingering
crawling
creeping
dawdling
dillydallying
dragging
idle
lagging
languid
leisurely
loitering
pokey
poking
poky
sluggardly
snaillike
snail-paced
time-wasting
tortoise-like
unpunctual
behindhand
indolent
lollygagging
procrastinating
slothful
tarrying
deliberate
flagging
late
moratory
neglectful
negligent
problem
remiss
slow-going
slow-paced
unhasty
stalling
deferring
temporizing
US
postponing
dilly-dallying
shelving
tabling
Fabian
temporising
UK
listless
lackadaisical
drowsy
inert
inactive
heavy
apathetic
lethargic
slow-moving
torpid
measured
passive
delayed
sleepy
plodding
leaden
dull
behind
languorous
phlegmatic
easy
ponderous
supine
enervated
laid-back
belated
stagnant
overdue
moderate
tortoiselike
dreamy
gradual
behind schedule
indifferent
running late
dormant
behind time
debilitated
not on time
unrushed
delinquent
somnolent
tired
latish
unenergetic
lifeless
weary
comatose
fatigued
draggy
impassive
dopey
moony
blah
slow-footed
having spring fever
relaxed
gentle
comfortable
sedate
casual
undemanding
steady
quiescent
weak
exhausted
lacklustre
UK
slumberous
lackluster
US
snoozy
spiritless
neb
lymphatic
too late
moving slowly
without energy
long-delayed
held up
hebetudinous
behind target
restful
easy-going
effortless
painstaking
patient
stupid
undeveloped
dense
underprivileged
imbecile
checked
moronic
arrested
underdeveloped
feeble-minded
subnormal
free
slackened
relaxing
slow and steady
on hands and knees
unproductive
burned out
sedentary
somnific
spent
deferred
later
postponed
jammed
put off
hung up
last-minute
eleventh-hour
long-overdue
laboured
UK
stupefied
leaden-footed
unenthusiastic
shiftless
laggy
flat
labored
US
imperceptible
slithering
shuffling
quailing
inching
sneaking
grovelling
UK
worming
skulking
writhing
slinking
wriggling
squirming
shambling
groveling
US
hobbling
nebbish
narcotic
stretchy
unmoving
stolid
wimpy
sleepyhead
static
limp
quiet
depressed
out of it
on all fours
barely moving
dead
yawny
faineant
unresponsive
fainéant
insensitive
insensible
dozy
logy
neurasthenic
asthenic
in arrears
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putting off doing something
putting off guard
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putting off the evil hour
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