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Definition of delaying : of Delay

Synonyms:

entrapping, complicating, frustrating, miring, impeding, choking, braking, burdening, constipating, blocking, fettering, staying, plugging, obstructing, bottlenecking, baffling, tangling, crimping, entangling, restricting, snagging, restraining, stopping, clogging, barring, damming, resisting, bunging, deterring, hindering, inhibiting, checking, snarling, handicapping, encumbering, jamming, constraining, thwarting, catching, opposing, detaining, burdensome, dragging, paralyzing, bottleneck, curbing, hamstringing, interrupting, congesting, crippling, hampering, countering, fouling, impairing, cramping

leisurely, creeping, phlegmatic, lingering, poky, plodding, sluggish, retarded, dawdling, lethargic, slow, trudging, crawling, loitering, slowpoke

retarding, poking, slowing

recessing, postponing, relieving, reprieving, suspending, breaking

recoiling, hesitating, shrinking, waiting, halting, pausing, faltering, balking

Usage examples:

• His main count was the injustice done to California by delaying her admittance, and making it dependent upon other issues; but he made almost as strong a point against the effort to settle the claims of Texas to New Mexican territory. - "Thomas Hart Benton", Theodore Roosevelt.
• How, then, fathom Jenny's mood for delaying? - "The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith", George Meredith.
• They believed that the Kiowas were delaying the attack with the hope of catching them off their guard. - "Three Sioux Scouts", Elmer Russell Gregor.