Crossword Dictionary

procrastinate

procrastinate, stall, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, shillyshally, dilly-dally, dillydally - v 
postpone doing what one should be doing; "He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days" 

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synonyms

filibuster, stall, temporize crawl, creep, dally, dawdle, delay, diddle, dillydally, drag, lag, linger, loiter, lollygag (also lallygag), mope, poke, shilly-shally, tarry

in a sentence

He procrastinated and missed the submission deadline.

He told her to stop procrastinating and get to work.

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etymology

"a putting off to a future time; dilatoriness," 1540s, from French procrastination (16c.) and directly from Latin procrastinationem (nominative procrastinatio) "a putting off from day to day," noun of action from past-participle stem of procrastinare "put off till tomorrow, defer, delay," from pro"forward" (see pro-) + crastinus "belonging to tomorrow," from cras "tomorrow," a word of unknown origin.

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