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prolong: lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer; "We prolonged our stay"; "She extended her visit by another day"; "The meeting was drawn out until midnight"; lengthen or extend in duration or space; "We sustained the diplomatic negotiations as long as possible"; "prolong the treatment of the patient"; "keep up the good work"

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perpetuate collapse: cause to continue or prevail; "perpetuate a myth"

elongate collapse: having notably more length than width; being long and slender; "an elongate tail tapering to a point"; "the old man's gaunt and elongated frame"; make long or longer by pulling and stretching; "stretch the fabric"

spin out collapse

string out collapse: set out or stretch in a line, succession, or series; "the houses were strung out in a long row"

keep going collapse

tauten collapse: make taut or tauter; "tauten a rope"; become taut or tauter; "Your muscles will firm when you exercise regularly"; "the rope tautened"

temporize collapse: draw out a discussion or process in order to gain time; "The speaker temporized in order to delay the vote"

keep alive collapse

hold over collapse: intimidate somebody (with a threat); "She was holding it over him"; continue a term of office past the normal period of time; keep in a position or state from an earlier period of time

sleep on collapse

adjourn collapse: close at the end of a session; "The court adjourned"; break from a meeting or gathering; "We adjourned for lunch"; "The men retired to the library"

postpone collapse: hold back to a later time; "let's postpone the exam"

lengthen collapse: become long or longer; "In Spring, the days lengthen"; make longer; "Lengthen this skirt, please"

dwell on collapse: delay

stand over collapse

protract collapse

lay over collapse: interrupt a journey temporarily, e.g., overnight; "We had to stop over in Venezuela on our flight back from Brazil"

shelve collapse: place on a shelf; "shelve books"

defer collapse

dilate collapse: become wider; "His pupils were dilated"

procrastinate collapse: postpone doing what one should be doing; "He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days"; postpone or delay needlessly; "He procrastinated the matter until it was almost too late"

stave off collapse

tighten collapse: become tight or tighter; "The rope tightened"; make tight or tighter; "Tighten the wire"

retain collapse: keep in one's mind; "I cannot retain so much information"; secure and keep for possible future use or application; "The landlord retained the security deposit"; "I reserve the right to disagree"; allow to remain in a place or position; "We cannot continue several servants any longer"; "She retains a lawyer"; "The family's fortune waned and they could not keep their household staff"; "Our grant has run out and we cannot keep you on"; "We kept the work going as long as we could"; hold within; "This soil retains water"; "I retain this drug for a long time"

ail collapse: be unwell, ill, or ill disposed

draw out collapse: cause to speak, "Can you draw her out--she is always so quiet"; make more sociable; "The therapist drew out the shy girl"

push aside collapse: push out of the way

stretch out collapse

lay by collapse

hang fire collapse

lay aside collapse

lacerate collapse: having edges that are jagged from injury; irregularly slashed and jagged as if torn; "lacerate leaves"; cut or tear irregularly; deeply hurt the feelings of; distress; "his lacerating remarks"

put aside collapse

rankle collapse

gnaw collapse: bite or chew on with the teeth; "gnaw an old cracker"

rasp collapse: a coarse file with sharp pointed projections; uttering in an irritated tone; utter in a grating voice; scrape with a rasp

tweak collapse: pinch or squeeze sharply

agonize collapse: suffer agony or anguish; cause to agonize

keep up collapse: prevent from going to bed at night; "The anticipation of the trip kept the children up all night"; "I kept myself up all night studying for the exam"; keep informed; "He kept up on his country's foreign policies"; maintain a required pace or level; "He could not keep up and dropped out of the race"

expand collapse: become larger in size or volume or quantity; "his business expanded rapidly"; make bigger or wider in size, volume, or quantity; "expand the house by adding another wing"; extend in one or more directions; "The dough expands"

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