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What does protract mean?

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Verb
  1. To draw out; to extend, especially in duration.
  2. To use a protractor.
  3. (surveying) To draw to a scale; to lay down the lines and angles of, with scale and protractor; to plot.
  4. To put off to a distant time; to delay; to defer.
  5. To extend; to protrude.
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The heroism of the Spaniards might protract, but could not avert their fall.
Men and women are encouraged to protract their sexually active lives, regardless of desire.
The coroner had acceded to Markham's proposition and was contriving to protract the session.
I repeat we do not want to protract the conference but I can see no reason why it could not end for instance in January, if need be.
Rather than setting out the conditions for stabilisation, it would protract or even increase instability, requiring an even more important international presence for a longer-term.
Recently the chancellor made clear that he was willing to risk investment in the new green economy to protract the life old way of doing things.

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