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Prolonging

To extend in space or length.

📖 Definitions of "Prolonging"

verb
  1. 1

    To extend in space or length.

  2. 2

    To lengthen in time; to extend the duration of

  3. 3

    To put off to a distant time; to postpone.

    "The government shouldn't prolong deciding on this issue any further."

  4. 4

    To become longer; lengthen.

noun
  1. 1

    Prolongation

    "the gradual prolongings of the whale's visible jets — Herman Melville."

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