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What is another word for
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▲
Noun
The fact or act of decelerating or being retarded
Reduction or decrease
Adjective
Becoming tired or declining in strength
Verb
Present participle for to hamper, hinder or slow down the progress of
Present participle for relax after a period of work or tension
Taking it steady
Present participle for to diminish to nothing
Present participle for to cause to proceed or move at a slower pace
Present participle for to refuse to work as a protest
Present participle for to spend time in a relaxed, lazy manner
Present participle for to move backward or to back away
Present participle for to move or pass at a slow speed, especially of time
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▲
Noun
▲
The fact or act of decelerating or being retarded
slowdown
slowing
deceleration
retardation
checking
braking
slowing up
downshift
letup
losing speed
slow-up
delay
freeze
stoppage
go-slow
wait
hindrance
impediment
setback
obstruction
holdup
stall
hangup
detainment
detention
lag
suspension
retardment
jam
check
interval
filibuster
surcease
bind
problem
obstacle
stop
prorogation
logjam
holding
stay
downtime
showstopper
impedance
cunctation
demurral
moratorium
discontinuation
loitering
postponement
procrastination
lingering
reprieve
adjournment
dawdling
remission
tarrying
tie-up
hold-up
holding pattern
cooling-off period
putting off
“An accident during rush hour would result in a noticeable
slowing down
of traffic.”
Noun
▲
Reduction or decrease
lessening
decline
decrease
reduction
contraction
diminution
dwindling
ebbing
erosion
shrinkage
waning
weakening
let-up
moderation
slackening
abatement
curtailment
de-escalation
minimization
deduction
detraction
discount
petering out
subtraction
taking away
easing
mitigation
alleviation
relief
assuagement
softening
diminishing
lightening
palliation
relaxation
remission
ebb
tempering
dulling
mollification
allaying
soothing
attenuation
modification
deadening
qualification
quelling
appeasement
subsiding
extenuation
subsidence
cushioning
easement
dying down
easing off
dilution
thinning
rest
fading
comfort
ease
lowering
wane
amelioration
slowing
cutback
sinking
cure
palliative
letup
slaking
remedy
tailing off
improvement
dying away
dying out
decreasing
reducing
restriction
blunting
retardation
reprieve
lapse
interval
break
cessation
respite
pause
recess
lull
loosening
vindication
justification
allayment
balm
offsetting
rarefication
fade
fall
diminishment
falloff
release
downtick
alleviating
drop
impoverishment
exhaustion
depletion
devitalization
weakness
enfeeblement
debilitation
receding
dropping away
dropping off
letting up
quenching
comforting
mitigating
relieving
assuaging
salving
cooling off
tapering off
deterioration
taking the edge off
watering down
recession
absorption
degeneration
decay
depreciation
flagging
soaking up
fading away
discounting
shrinking
downsizing
contracting
tightening
narrowing
shortening
cutting down
marking down
paring down
tapering
pacification
placation
modulation
calming
damping
stilling
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Becoming tired or declining in strength
flagging
declining
weakening
tiring
wearying
wilting
faltering
giving up
drooping
droopy
fatigued
languid
languishing
languorous
leaden
lethargic
limp
listless
sagging
spiritless
tired
weak
fading
slumping
failing
deteriorating
sinking
waning
ebbing
idling
enervated
sluggish
lackadaisical
inactive
slow
inert
lazy
weary
torpid
heavy
snoozy
lymphatic
apathetic
indifferent
impassive
supine
blah
uninterested
phlegmatic
unconcerned
energyless
dopey
comatose
infirm
wimpy
faint
moony
easy
blahs
pining
nebbish
unenthusiastic
unhurried
feeble
sleepyhead
leisurely
sickly
laid-back
sleepy
dull
exhausted
dilatory
slow-going
slumberous
unproductive
lacklustre
UK
debilitated
lackluster
US
without energy
lifeless
unenergetic
drowsy
slow-paced
slow-moving
sedentary
somnific
slothful
burned out
spent
passive
somnolent
still
dreamy
relaxed
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to hamper, hinder or slow down the progress of
delaying
hindering
holding back
holding up
impeding
retarding
setting back
slowing
slowing up
inhibiting
hampering
curbing
obstructing
restraining
checking
restricting
interfering with
blocking
handicapping
encumbering
stymieing
hamstringing
trammelling
trammeling
thwarting
cramping
constraining
fettering
shackling
frustrating
preventing
arresting
stopping
hobbling
stalling
limiting
barring
bridling
baulking
UK
interrupting
cumbering
balking
US
foiling
clogging
handcuffing
decelerating
hog-tying
tying up
hanging up
detaining
deterring
crippling
curtailing
short-circuiting
keeping back
suppressing
embarrassing
manacling
bogging down
throwing a spanner in the works
getting in the way of
forestalling
repressing
borking
disrupting
halting
holding
standing in the way of
putting a brake on
throwing a monkey wrench in the works of
reining in
controlling
prohibiting
derailing
smothering
braking
baffling
withholding
stonewalling
crimping
choking
getting in the way
stifling
reducing
moderating
staying
postponing
regulating
slackening
counteracting
holding in
keeping in check
interfering
forbidding
muffling
stemming
containing
interdicting
weighing down
retardating
lessening
deferring
shelving
contravening
putting back
miring
bringing to screeching halt
keeping
putting the brakes on
closing off
shutting down
shutting off
stemming the flow of
holding down
subduing
keeping under control
cutting off
debarring
suspending
making late
putting off
inconveniencing
precluding
putting an end to
dissuading from
entangling
binding
tying
pausing
reining
neutralizing
US
diminishing
keeping waiting
stunting
cramping one's style
averting
confining
bottlenecking
embogging
sandbagging
sabotaging
fighting back
staunching
crabbing
cutting back
scuppering
biting back
choking off
opposing
holding over
saddling with
taming
choking back
winding down
boxing in
remitting
taking down
backing off
proroguing
keeping a lid on
decreasing
muzzling
governing
freezing
neutralising
UK
fazing
discontinuing
weakening
letting up
bogging
getting bogged down
sidetracking
obscuring
screening
monkeying with
throttling
complicating
outlawing
putting on brakes
keeping in
warding
enjoining
petering out
standing off
resisting
shutting out
burdening
lousing up
throwing a spoke in the wheel of
overloading
collecting
simmering down
cooling
composing
disadvantaging
incommoding
damming
chaining
disconcerting
screwing up
rattling
discomfiting
giving a hard time
fouling up
capturing
enmeshing
hemming in
tethering
straitening
snagging
catching
ensnaring
netting
discommoding
oppressing
bothering
charging
sinking
making difficult
cooling off
strangling
gagging
buttoning up
entrammelling
pegging
putting a limit on
keeping within bounds
disciplining
measuring
keeping tight rein on
ruling
entrammeling
keeping the lid on
keeping a tight rein on
keeping lid on
cooling down
tempering
cutting down
lagging
anchoring it
losing speed
hitting the brakes
loitering
abating
qualifying
letting down flaps
procrastinating
quieting
reefing
losing steam
protracting
holding off on
staving off
intermitting
prolonging
causing to wait
causing to stay
softening
deadening
mitigating
dampening
blunting
alleviating
dulling
slacking
getting slower
stepping down
reducing in speed
making slower
becoming slower
cushioning
putting in cold storage
putting over
rescheduling
standing over
putting off the evil day
tabling
putting off the evil hour
laying on the table
mothballing
adjourning
pigeonholing
putting on the back burner
continuing
taking a rain check on
carrying over
putting on ice
holding in abeyance
putting in abeyance
respiting
holding off
doing later
overcoming
swallowing
squelching
cutting short
terminating
bottling up
discouraging
pulling in
repulsing
checkmating
slackening pace
playing for time
bringing to a standstill
rebuffing
putting a spoke in someone's wheel
circumventing
nipping in the bud
quelling
making less active
deflating
squashing
buttressing
muting
soaking up
damping down
getting rid of
mellowing
putting a damper on
lightening
damping
toning down
easing
getting under control
lowering
absorbing
taking the edge off
quietening
quashing
harshing
depressing
holding in check
debilitating
leashing
dragging your feet
tiing one's hands
defeating
heading off
warding off
putting a stop to
dashing
ruining
spoiling
intercepting
obviating
scotching
avoiding
putting the kibosh on
fending off
countering
nullifying
defending against
upsetting
snookering
beating
disappointing
deflecting
evading
putting paid to
doing for
impairing
breaking
diverting
banning
stumping
crushing
proscribing
smashing
turning aside
subverting
keeping at bay
ruling out
messing up
wrecking
ending
constricting
undermining
finishing
overturning
pre-empting
annulling
confounding
parrying
circumnavigating
preempting
disallowing
undoing
anticipating
skirting
sidestepping
outwitting
putting the stopper on
picking off
forfending
filibustering
breaking up
steering clear of
throwing cold water on
upsetting the applecart
pouring cold water on
destroying
saddling
circumscribing
demolishing
shaking
devastating
weighting
delimiting
letting
marring
ceasing
estopping
quitting
loading
shattering
eradicating
dropping
lumbering
nobbling
harming
repelling
overwhelming
overburdening
obliterating
freighting
lading
annihilating
negating
decimating
botching
helping
straining
cancelling
UK
canceling
US
throwing monkey wrench in
second-guessing
turning off
mucking up
tying down
hanging fire
breaking off
putting on hold
bringing to a close
putting the mockers on
desisting from
putting the lid on
leaving off
getting ahead of
getting in before
putting on back burner
giving the run around
heading off at pass
cutting out
laying off
beating someone to the draw
providing against
packing up
beating someone to the punch
knocking off
packing in
stealing a march on
bringing to an end
beating someone to it
giving over
refusing
excluding
straitjacketing
hanging on
resisting attack
holding the fort
plugging
finishing off
getting out of
suffocating
damaging
escaping
bypassing
capping
worrying
offsetting
bucking
bilking
attacking
stultifying
putting straitjacket on
dispatching
incapacitating
ravaging
making an end of
clobbering
dishing
sidelining
eliminating
tying someone's hands
preventing from making progress
boycotting
blacklisting
crashing
unsettling
juking
taking wind out of
ditching
setting limits on
imposing limits on
puzzling
disabling
threatening
making impossible
keeping from happening
disturbing
affecting
putting a crimp in
forefending
staving
mystifying
putting the damper on
influencing
tampering
abolishing
holding at bay
spiking
invalidating
scuttling
confusing
ostracizing
US
withdrawing
jamming
conflicting
troubling
extinguishing
bollixing
killing
nonplussing
intervening
renouncing
putting at a disadvantage
throwing a curve
standing in the way
placing at a disadvantage
confronting
giving disadvantage
taking out
aborting
keeping off
flummoxing
putting out of commission
foreseeing
projecting
preoccupying
predicting
monopolizing
US
envisioning
forecasting
expecting
narrowing down
keeping within the limits of
breaking down
disempowering
cornering
dead-ending
counterplotting
crossing
burying
blanking
banjaxing
bringing to end
bringing to a halt
saving
intruding on
monopolising
UK
holding the line
licking
conquering
ostracising
UK
embargoing
making illegal
scaring
chillin
chilling
disadvising
commandeering
wasting time
destabilizing
US
beating down
taking wind out of sails
getting the better of
putting end to
causing setback
forbidding to
dashing one's hope
rendering null and void
demoralizing
US
attenuating
buying time
preparing for
indisposing
emasculating
sapping
talking out of
throwing a monkey wrench into
destabilising
UK
challenging
demoralising
UK
acting like a wet blanket
cutting in
taking away
employing delaying tactics
dragging through the mud
queering the pitch of
clipping one's wings
poking full of holes
setting aside
lengthening
waiving
extending
laying over
giving rain check
kicking the can down the road
injuring
toppling
queering
blowing
overtaxing
stressing
taxing
overthrowing
vitiating
razing
wracking
unbuilding
skinning
impoverishing
crazing
working against
making a mess of
putting at risk
bringing down
canceling out
bringing to naught
raining on someone's parade
rendering ineffective
ballsing up
cancelling out
playing havoc with
blowing a hole in
bringing to a stop
blowing the whistle on
putting a cork in
winding up
closing down
pulling the plug on
more ❯
“All the so-called triumphs of efficient production simply attempt to
slow down
the pace of the downward curve.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for relax after a period of work or tension
unwinding
relaxing
de-stressing
loosening up
resting
easing off
idling
lazing
loafing
reposing
unbending
winding down
easing up
flopping
letting up
lolling
lounging
luxuriating
sitting back
slumping
chilling
chillin
chilling out
decompressing
doing nothing
playing
standing down
unbuttoning
outspanning
slacking off
taking it easy
amusing oneself
enjoying oneself
entertaining oneself
reclining
taking time off
kicking back
mellowing out
staying loose
vegging out
calming down
letting yourself go
letting it all hang out
making yourself at home
taking a break
cooling off
taking a breather
taking time out
basking
settling back
taking your ease
taking ten
putting your feet up
doing less
lying down
slackening
collecting oneself
composing oneself
having a break
stopping work
sitting around
breathing easy
switching off
feeling at home
sitting down
taking five
catching one's breath
lying back
taking a load off
taking things easy
unlaxing
lolloping
grooving
dozing
sleeping
napping
snoozing
knocking off
simmering down
taking one's time
making less tense
lightening up
letting your hair down
relaxing your efforts
drowsing
pausing
slackening off
slumbering
recuperating
breathing
catnapping
turning off
zizzing
slacking
kipping
stopping for a breath
lying by
taking a rest
stretching out
refreshing oneself
having a rest
taking a nap
taking life easy
letting down
nodding off
having a nap
having a siesta
lying still
having a snooze
taking a siesta
having forty winks
having a spell
getting some shut-eye
snatching forty winks
catching some Zs
going to bed
getting some kip
having a kip
cooling it
settling down
cooling down
chillaxing
mellowing
calming yourself
controlling oneself
controlling yourself
getting a grip on yourself
getting a hold of yourself
getting your act together
quietening down
settling
composing yourself
taking a chill pill
pulling oneself together
steadying oneself
going easy
getting a grip
becoming quieter
becoming calmer
behaving
slouching
destressing
daydreaming
hanging out
stoning
stopping worrying
recessing
refreshing
becoming informal
becoming less formal
breaking
lounging around
lazing around
stopping briefly
suspending proceedings
loosening
having a breather
having time out
calming
soothing
becoming relaxed
becoming less rigid
hosing down
getting hold of oneself
restraining yourself
keeping cool
pacifying
quietening
cooling out
quieting down
pulling in one's horns
regaining one's composure
composing
tranquilizing
US
tranquillising
UK
making less uptight
getting control of oneself
more ❯
Verb
▲
Taking it steady
going easy on
avoiding
stinting
taking it easy
taking it steady
tempering
Verb
▲
Present participle for to diminish to nothing
petering
checking
contracting
curbing
decaying
declining
degenerating
draining
drooping
dropping
easing
ebbing
fading
lowering
quieting
rebating
settling
shrinking
sinking
slashing
slumping
tapering
waning
wasting
abating
calming down
crumbling
curtailing
cutting down
depreciating
deteriorating
devaluating
dying down
diminishing
dropping off
drying up
dwindling
evaporating
falling off
lessening
letting up
lightening
losing edge
modifying
narrowing down
petering out
quelling
reducing
restraining
running low
shrivelling
UK
shriveling
US
slackening
slacking off
softening
subsiding
tailing away
tailing off
weakening
wearing away
wearing down
withering
relaxing
decreasing
moderating
tapering off
relenting
de-escalating
easing off
mitigating
receding
tempering
remitting
depressing
ratcheting down
phasing down
falling
impairing
palling
winding down
draining away
dying away
slackening off
easing up
falling away
settling down
growing less
dying out
limiting
depleting
cutting
alleviating
restricting
flagging
plummetting
plummeting
downscaling
attenuating
cutting back
deflating
quietening
diluting
decrementing
toning down
axing
rolling back
eroding
clipping
blurring
denting
minifying
getting less
becoming calm
becoming peaceful
becoming smaller
taking the edge off
quieting down
growing smaller
quietening down
taking it easy
stopping
downsizing
sagging
slaking
allaying
assuaging
releasing
dulling
slacking
deadening
inhibiting
disengaging
becoming weaker
coming to an end
knocking down
blunting
mollifying
devaluing
plunging
going easy
palliating
becoming less intense
dampening
nosediving
bridling
closing
thinning
desisting
taming
becoming less
devitalizing
sapping
wasting away
going down
taking the bite out
slacking up
soft-pedalling
soft-pedaling
taking the sting out
dropping away
coming down
dying off
making less active
slowing up
chilling out
composing oneself
controlling oneself
chilling
simmering down
getting hold of oneself
chillin
regaining one's composure
minimizing
US
scaling down
stabilising
UK
snuggling down
stabilizing
US
becoming less restless
dialing down
paring
couching
bringing down
casting down
whittling
tightening
amortising
UK
degrading
trimming
making less
stepping down
running down
amortizing
US
making cutbacks in
trimming down
extenuating
qualifying
trimming back
marking down
downgrading
whittling down
making smaller
taking down
minimising
UK
relieving
soothing
calming
subduing
cushioning
cooling
stifling
suppressing
damping
stilling
melting away
fading away
disappearing
dipping
muffling
vanishing
smothering
helping
lulling
going downhill
crashing
muting
descending
appeasing
diving
undermining
failing
lenifying
slowing
tumbling
damping down
tranquilizing
US
controlling
pacifying
tranquillising
UK
dissolving
numbing
dimming
placating
composing
benumbing
dissipating
dying
trailing off
taking a nosedive
quenching
fizzling out
wearing off
modulating
languishing
ceasing
trailing
buffering
repressing
growing faint
extinguishing
containing
running out
absorbing
cooling off
regressing
cratering
destroying
putting a damper on
skidding
dispelling
sweetening
gentling
wilting
falling steeply
sating
disintegrating
loosening
falling sharply
giving out
going away
cauterizing
US
ameliorating
hitting the floor
overcoming
cauterising
UK
retarding
dropping rapidly
going into a tailspin
constricting
smoothing
adjusting
hushing
collapsing
squelching
atrophying
debilitating
bating
turning down
sliding
dispersing
going
finishing
mellowing
putting damper on
growing dim
paring down
putting the lid on
becoming weak
coming to nothing
cutting off
trailing away
going through the floor
getting smaller
fading out
getting lower
halting
narrowing
coming to a halt
taking a dive
letting up on
salving
blocking
consuming
damming
lapsing
disempowering
regulating
stemming
enfeebling
banishing
enervating
satisfying
quashing
melting
hindering
vitiating
terminating
staying
decelerating
silencing
downturning
healing
sloping
retrenching
holding back
revising
watering down
crippling
disabling
stanching
making less intense
subverting
staunching
devouring
obtunding
commuting
piping down
comforting
loosing
getting rid of
making weaker
defusing
ruining
dumping
putting an end to
pouring oil on
throwing cold water on
anesthetizing
US
ending
curing
clearing
wrecking
varying
succoring
US
preventing
spoiling
playing down
lagging
falling short
retrograding
rotting
emaciating
taking a header
pouring cold water on
dampening down
succouring
UK
caving in
becoming lower
breaking down
breaking up
coming to a stop
levelling off
eating away
taking the heat off
shortening
pruning
satiating
abasing
discounting
blanketing
growing weaker
faltering
diffusing
reining
losing strength
losing intensity
untightening
addressing
improving
gratifying
guttering
excusing
decimating
minimalizing
paralyzing
US
paralysing
UK
giving way
giving in
evanescing
minishing
fainting
abbreviating
falling through
taking the bite out of
taking the sting out of
keeping in check
masking
making reasonable
slipping
reducing the force of
subjugating
dropping down
muzzling
putting a lid on
anaesthetizing
UK
running dry
muddying up
retiring
rising above
resolving
desensitizing
US
losing ground
fizzling
etiolating
choking off
unlaxing
refreshing
drawing to a close
closing out
going downwards
passing
killing
dulcifying
adulterating
rarefying
offsetting
decreasing the volume
keeping it down
dying away or out
dying away or down
straitening
worsening
reducing the effect of
gruntling
losing its effect
losing its effectiveness
freshening
allying
frosting
freezing
infrigidating
blowing over
withdrawing
clearing up
devolving
ebbing away
anaesthetising
UK
scaling back
tiring
disimproving
growing weak
reducing punishment
fixing up
relapsing
withering away
losing
tottering
prostrating
thinning out
becoming moribund
having one foot in the grave
taking sting out
patching things up
hebetating
liberalising
UK
liberalizing
US
dragging
backsliding
buckling
cheapening
desensitising
UK
phasing out
cooling it
dismissing
thinning down
making narrower
protecting against
eliminating
sinking into oblivion
disappearing slowly
passing away
wizening
flopping
taking pressure off
neutralizing
US
bowing out
breaking
defending against
shielding against
corroding
neutralising
UK
feeling weak
losing energy
feeling faint
becoming listless
making less strict
making less formal
easing up on
putting to rest
chasing away
driving off
driving away
becoming narrower
getting narrower
laying off
treating
cooling out
losing value
safeguarding against
decreasing in value
declining in price
folding up
reducing the impact of
softening the impact of
lessening the impact of
smoothing out
clearing the air
nursing
hitting the dirt
tipping over
eating
gnawing
brightening
counteracting
attending
abrading
exhausting
scattering
punctuating
consoling
solacing
paling
arresting
expending
lissing
interrupting
doctoring
remedying
nourishing
weathering
spending
emptying
assisting
aiding
paling into insignificance
decreasing in importance
losing significance
bringing respite to
fretting
nibbling
using up
evacuating
making better
rehabilitating
balming
bringing an end to
bringing aid to
bringing aid
taking a load off
taking load off
making something bearable
attuning
balancing
threatening
damaging
milking
scraping away
losing lustre
growing dull
harmonizing
US
scouring
biting
grinding down
biting at
eating away at
destabilizing
US
disrupting
sabotaging
undoing
clearing out
becoming less in number
becoming less dense
becoming less numerous
resisting
opposing
withstanding
bleeding
burning
chipping away at
gnawing away at
eating into
setting
toning
tuning
demolishing
impoverishing
bankrupting
sucking dry
bringing to a standstill
inflecting
destabilising
UK
squandering
thwarting
drawing down
undercutting
drawing
playing out
chipping away
slimming down
detracting from
foiling
tweaking
shifting
transmogrifying
amending
changing
altering
fine-tuning
revamping
switching
harmonising
UK
adapting
eating up
digging into
washing up
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to cause to proceed or move at a slower pace
slacking up
decelerating
slowing
dropping speed
reducing speed
putting the brakes on
retarding
slackening
losing speed
slowing up
easing up
braking
hitting the brakes
slamming on the anchors
letting up
putting on the brakes
slamming on the brakes
slackening off
losing pace
going slower
slacking off
Verb
▲
Present participle for to refuse to work as a protest
going slow
taking industrial action
working to rule
mutinying
revolting
walking
boycotting
rebelling
quitting
picketing
resisting
stopping work
sticking out
downing tools
holding out
going on strike
sitting in
hitting the bricks
refusing to work
striking
sitting down
going on a go-slow
walking out
coming out
Verb
▲
Present participle for to spend time in a relaxed, lazy manner
lazing
idling
loafing
lounging
lolling
relaxing
bumming
lazying
lying
unwinding
slacking
vegetating
chilling
chillin
dallying
dawdling
daydreaming
dillydallying
footling
skiving
vegging
droning
basking
dossing
goldbricking
loitering
malingering
stalling
trifling
lounging around
taking it easy
hanging about
killing time
lying about
lying around
loafing about
loafing around
lolling about
lolling around
lounging about
bumming around
kicking around
kicking back
vegging out
wasting time
doing nothing
frittering away time
goofing off
hanging around
hanging round
twiddling thumbs
fooling around
hacking around
marking time
passing time
piddling about
piddling around
whiling away hours
whiling away the hours
fooling away
hanging out
knocking around
not lifting a finger
sitting around
standing around
frittering away
mooching around
mooching about
drifting
mooching
sauntering
strolling
shirking
dreaming
piddling
evading
whiling away the time
taking things easy
letting down
languishing
stagnating
whiling
slouching
frittering
pottering
slummocking
mouldering
UK
degenerating
bludging
lollygagging
moldering
US
lazing around
lazing about
slouching around
slouching about
sitting back
whiling away
resting on your oars
fannying about
batting around
sitting back and do nothing
going to seed
batting about
kicking your heels
bobbing off
lingering
batting
tarrying
moping
sprawling
mooning
creeping
waiting
shilly-shallying
dilly-dallying
idling away time
filling in time
passing the time
sitting on one's hands
idling away the hours
consuming time
amusing oneself
chilling out
messing around
whiling away time
delaying
lagging
fiddling
wandering
meandering
crawling
diddling
dragging
poking
ambling
lallygagging
drooping
reclining
stooging
resting
staying
frittering time away
doing nothing in particular
putting off
vacillating
deteriorating
existing
hibernating
decaying
weakening
hanging
remaining
hovering
frequenting
haunting
skulking
futzing
chillaxing
stooging around
going to pot
burning daylight
lying dormant
fiddling around
procrastinating
messing about
lying down on job
puttering
taking a break
taking a breather
putting your feet up
dogging it
taking five
boondoggling
trailing
pottering about
toddling
pottering around
diddle-daddling
hanging fire
plodding
flopping about
flopping around
sunbathing
pottering round
fooling with
trifling with
playing games
fooling about
horsing around
shlepping along
taking your time
getting no place fast
sitting on one's butt
scrounging around
dragging your feet
warming a chair
reposing
outspanning
sunning
warming oneself
roaming
rambling
roving
sunning yourself
toasting yourself
traipsing
ranging
swimming in
spreading out
stretching out
gallivanting
cruising
galavanting
floating
straying
straggling
deviating
maundering
gadding about
knocking about
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to move backward or to back away
dropping behind
straggling
lagging behind
falling behind
falling back
withdrawing
pulling out
retreating
retiring
backing away
receding
losing ground
giving way
giving ground
lagging
trailing
trailing behind
dawdling
straying
bringing up the rear
hanging back
holding back
losing
tarrying
dallying
wandering
drifting
loitering
tailing
walking slowly
scrambling
erring
poking around
drooping
meandering
straddling
rambling
roaming
spreading
dangling
maundering
strining out
ranging
roving
ambling
sagging
hanging down
poking
Verb
▲
Present participle for to move or pass at a slow speed, especially of time
dragging
crawling
dawdling
dallying
creeping
lingering
loitering
delaying
lagging
tarrying
poking
dillydallying
plodding
diddling
moping
limping
inching
lollygagging
lallygagging
nosing
snailing
trailing
straggling
oozing
slouching
shuffling
draggling
shilly-shallying
lagging behind
hanging back
moving slowly
creaking along
going slowly
trailing behind
limping along
creeping along
advancing slowly
hanging heavy
wearing on
appearing to pass slowly
going on and on
going on too long
becoming tedious
dithering
idling
faltering
staggering
sauntering
staying
tailing
trudging
dropping
dilly-dallying
falling behind
dragging your feet
putting off
dropping behind
falling back
dragging behind
bringing up the rear
getting no place fast
slowing up
inching along
falling off
procrastinating
hesitating
stalling
pausing
taking your time
taking one's time
hanging fire
vacillating
marking time
hanging around
holding back
temporizing
US
wasting time
waiting
temporising
UK
hanging about
dragging your heels
playing for time
drifting
mooching
loafing
drooping
moseying
lolling
ambling
toddling
straying
filibustering
trifling
wavering
puttering
killing time
pottering about
pottering around
staying put
losing ground
pottering round
warming a chair
fooling around
sitting around
using delaying tactics
humming and hawing
putting off doing something
goofing off
holding off
playing a waiting game
strolling
losing
slacking
shirking
schlepping along
fiddling
batting
whiling away time
mooning
languishing
stonewalling
stooging
tottering
pottering
slow-walking
waiting around
buying time
poking along
diddle-daddling
hanging on
horsing around
wabbling
teetering
demurring
frittering time away
halting
wobbling
scrupling
retarding
havering
postponing
deferring
protracting
prolonging
adjourning
frittering away
scrounging around
shlepping along
bumming around
hanging out
cooling
swithering
goldbricking
hovering
biding
sitting on one's butt
wandering
taking a raincheck
suspending action
postponing action
deferring action
letting something slide
kicking the can down the road
staying in the background
staying back
shrinking back
shying away
roaming
meandering
ranging
hanging round
losing time
goofing around
dangling
roving
sagging
rambling
straddling
spreading
walking slowly
hanging down
erring
scrambling
maundering
poking around
strining out
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