delaying

• ambling
• crawling
• creeping
• dallying
• dawdling
• decelerating
• deferring
• detaining
• diddling
• dillydallying
• dragging
• dropping behind
• easing
• extending
• falling behind
• filibustering
• fooling around
• hanging fire
• hesitating
• holding over
• holding up
• idling
• inching
• lagging
• lallygagging
• laying over
• lengthening
• lingering
• loafing
• loitering
• lolling
• lollygagging
• lounging
• lumbering
• marking time
• messing around
• moping
• pausing
• playing
• plodding
• poking
• postponing
• procrastinating
• prolonging
• protracting
• putting off
• putting over
• remitting
• retarding
• sauntering
• shelving
• shilly-shallying
• shuffling
• slowing
• staggering
• stalling
• staying
• strolling
• suspending
• tarrying
• temporizing
• trifling
• waiting

• accelerating
• acting
• barreling
• barrelling
• bolting
• bowling
• breezing
• careering
• catching up
• coursing
• darting
• dashing
• doing
• fast-forwarding
• flying
• galloping
• hastening
• humping
• hurrying
• hurtling
• hustling
• jogging
• outpacing
• outrunning
• outstripping
• overtaking
• quickening
• racing
• ripping
• rocketing
• running
• rushing
• scooting
• scrambling
• scudding
• scurrying
• speeding
• sprinting
• stampeding
• tearing
• trotting
• whirling
• whisking
• whizzing
• zipping

• verb
  1. To put off until a later time; to defer.
  2. To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time.
  3. To allay; to temper.
  4. To dilute, temper.
  5. To assuage, quench, allay.
• noun
  1. A delay.

• She apologized for delaying the meeting due to unexpected traffic.
• Delaying the decision only made the problem worse.
• He kept delaying his homework until the last minute.
• The storm is delaying flights at the airport.
• Constant interruptions are delaying our progress on the project.

dabbling

dalliance

dallying

vacillating

wabbling

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