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  • 21drag one's feet — verb postpone doing what one should be doing (Freq. 2) He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days • Syn: ↑procrastinate, ↑stall, ↑drag one s heels, ↑shillyshally, ↑dilly dally, ↑dillydally …

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  • 22drag one's heels — verb postpone doing what one should be doing He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days • Syn: ↑procrastinate, ↑stall, ↑drag one s feet, ↑shillyshally, ↑dilly dally, ↑dillydally • …

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  • 23shillyshally — I noun the act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or defering an action to a later time • Syn: ↑procrastination, ↑cunctation • Derivationally related forms: ↑procrastinate (for: ↑procrastination) …

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  • 24Reiterative — Re*it er*a*tive (r? ?t ?r ? t?v), n. 1. (Gram.) A word expressing repeated or reiterated action. [1913 Webster] 2. A word formed from another, or used to form another, by repetition; as, dillydally. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 25stall — I verb arrest, avert, bar, block, bog, break down, bring to a standstill, check, dally, dawdle, defer, delay, detain, dillydally, disable, filibuster, halt, hamper, hinder, hold up, impede, incapacitate, inhibit, interrupt, keep back, lag, linger …

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  • 26abide — Synonyms and related words: abide in, abide with, accede, accept, adhere, await, be big, be coextensive with, be comprised in, be constituted by, be contained in, be content with, be easy with, be present in, be still, bear, bear with, berth,… …

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  • 27amble — Synonyms and related words: airing, barge, bowl along, bundle, canter, caracole, claudicate, clump, constitutional, crawl, creep, curvet, dally, dillydally, dogtrot, drag, drag along, drag out, drift, droop, flounce, foot, footslog, forced march …

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  • 28await — Synonyms and related words: abide, anticipate, approach, be destined, be fated, be imminent, be in store, be to be, be to come, bide, bide the issue, brew, come, come on, confront, count, dally, dawdle, delay, dillydally, draw near, draw nigh,… …

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  • 29bide — Synonyms and related words: abide, abide with, await, bear, bear with, bide the issue, brave, brook, carry on, cease not, continue, continue to be, dally, dawdle, defeat time, defy time, delay, dig, dillydally, drag on, dwell, endure, exist,… …

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  • 30dally — Synonyms and related words: abide, await, bide, bide the issue, bill and coo, caress, copulate, coquet, cosset, cuddle, dabble, dally away, dandle, dawdle, delay, diddle, diddle away, dillydally, doodle, drag, dribble away, drivel away, falter,… …

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