delaying

Delay \De*lay"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Delayed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Delaying}.] [OF. deleer, delaier, fr. the noun d['e]lai, or
   directly fr. L. dilatare to enlarge, dilate, in LL., to put
   off. See {Delay}, n., and cf. {Delate}, 1st {Defer},
   {Dilate}.]
   1. To put off; to defer; to procrastinate; to prolong the
      time of or before.
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            My lord delayeth his coming.          --Matt. xxiv.
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   2. To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time; to
      retard the motion, or time of arrival, of; as, the mail is
      delayed by a heavy fall of snow.
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            Thyrsis! whose artful strains have oft delayed
            The huddling brook to hear his madrigal. --Milton.
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   3. To allay; to temper. [Obs.]
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            The watery showers delay the raging wind. --Surrey.
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27 Moby Thesaurus words for "delaying":
      Micawberish, backward, dallying, dawdling, dilatory, dillydallying,
      dragging, easygoing, foot-dragging, lackadaisical, laggard,
      lagging, lax, lazy, lingering, loitering, lollygagging,
      procrastinating, procrastinative, procrastinatory, remiss,
      shilly-shallying, shuffling, slack, slow, sluggish, tarrying