v
(transitive, reflexive, obsolete) Keep or withhold oneself.
v
(transitive) To postpone.
adj
Having been stopped or prevented from developing; terminated prematurely.
v
(intransitive, obsolete) To retire; to withdraw, depart, go away.
v
(idiomatic) Purposefully cause a delay, in order to achieve something else.
v
To conclude; to quit or stop an activity, especially after applying oneself to it for a significant period of time.
v
(intransitive) To telephone in one's notice of a day's absence from work.
v
(figuratively) To relent; to grant approval against one's initial will.
v
(formal, transitive) To stop doing (something).
v
(law) To stop and not resume an action.
v
Obsolete form of cease. [(formal, intransitive) To stop.]
v
(transitive) To make last; to prolong.
v
(transitive) To delay or postpone
v
(transitive, intransitive) To put off until a later time; to defer.
n
Alternative form of delaying tactic (chiefly US) [Something that is done in order to put off a decision or action until later.]
n
Something that is done in order to put off a decision or action until later.
v
(intransitive, obsolete) To linger; to stay; to tarry
v
(transitive, intransitive, formal) To cease to proceed or act; to stop (often with from).
v
(transitive) To move away (from) someone or something.
v
(intransitive) To delay; linger; tarry.
v
(intransitive, archaic or poetic) To delay; linger.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To put away; to separate; to keep off.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To move to or place at a distance (from something).
v
(obsolete, transitive) To cause to cease; to stop.
v
(transitive) To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from.
v
(transitive) To prevent, delay or hinder something by taking precautionary or anticipatory measures; to avert.
v
Obsolete form of forestall. [(transitive) To prevent, delay or hinder something by taking precautionary or anticipatory measures; to avert.]
v
(transitive, intransitive, UK dialectal) To defer; postpone.
v
(idiomatic, transitive) To recover (from).
n
The action of one who halts; a stopping or hesitancy.
v
(transitive) To avoid; to prevent; to refrain from; to restrain (oneself). Usually used in nonassertive contexts with can.
v
(idiomatic, transitive) To delay the progress of, especially in school.
n
A delay or forebearance.
adj
(rare) Not transitive or passing further; kept; detained.
v
(transitive) To prevent (a pupil) from advancing in a course.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To stay or cause to stay at a distance (from).
v
(UK, transitive) To reserve (something) for the future.
n
(chiefly US) A dismissal of employees from their jobs because of tightened budgetary constraints or work shortage (not due to poor performance or misconduct).
v
obsolete typography of leave [(transitive) To cause or allow (something) to remain as available; to refrain from taking (something) away; to stop short of consuming or otherwise depleting (something) entirely.]
v
(transitive) To cause or allow (something) to remain as available; to refrain from taking (something) away; to stop short of consuming or otherwise depleting (something) entirely.
v
Synonym of let be (to leave alone; not to disturb)
v
(transitive, idiomatic) To not live longer than; to be survived by.
v
(intransitive) To stop with a view to resuming at a later point.
v
(transitive, idiomatic) To cause or allow to remain in the on or open position.
v
(Britain) To allow a portion to remain unused or unconsumed.
v
Obsolete spelling of leave [(transitive) To cause or allow (something) to remain as available; to refrain from taking (something) away; to stop short of consuming or otherwise depleting (something) entirely.]
v
(transitive) To leave as a legacy.
v
(transitive) To allow to, not to prevent (+ infinitive, but usually without to).
v
(intransitive, archaic) To stop, to stop doing something; to leave off (now used alone, formerly also + infinitive).
v
(idiomatic) To leave something to follow its natural course.
v
To settle in one place rather than moving to another.
v
(intransitive) To be deferred to a future occasion.
v
(UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To desist, to stop to cease.
v
To move (oneself, or someone/something else) so as to free up space.
v
(transitive) To avoid (a future problem or difficult situation).
n
(archaic) A postponement; the act of putting something off for later.
v
(intransitive) To remain; be left over.
v
(transitive, informal) To defer (a matter) until a later date.
v
(transitive, archaic) To leave; to quit.
v
(transitive) To halt the play or playback of, temporarily, so that it can be resumed from the same point.
v
(transitive) To consider pending; to delay or postpone (something).
v
(intransitive, rare, formal) To procrastinate for a long time, especially two days.
v
To delay or put off an event, appointment, etc.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To postpone.
v
(transitive) To stop (an outcome); to keep from (doing something).
v
(intransitive) To delay taking action; to wait until later.
v
(transitive) To suspend (a parliamentary session) or to discontinue the meetings of (an assembly, parliament etc.) without formally ending the session.
v
(transitive) To delay, postpone, put off, push back.
v
(transitive) To save or keep (something) to be used at a later time.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To fend off, deflect; to dismiss.
v
(transitive) To procrastinate.
v
(idiomatic) Synonym of set store by
v
(idiomatic) Synonym of set store by
n
An excuse made to delay or stall.
v
(transitive) To leave (a place).
v
(intransitive, with preposition "from") To stop oneself from some action or interference; to abstain.
v
(transitive) To reject, put off (a request, demand etc.).
v
(transitive or intransitive) To quit (a job or position).
v
(intransitive, transitive, law, US) To complete one's active advocacy in a trial or other proceeding, and thus to wait for the outcome (however, one is still generally available to answer questions, etc.)
v
(transitive) To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progressing.
v
(intransitive) To abandon or betray one's supporters or principles to seek profit or other personal advantage.
v
(transitive) To leave out of account; to omit or neglect.
adj
Of a device setting, a strategy, etc.: configured a certain way and then left without further attention.
adj
Postponed or put aside indefinitely.
v
To delay; to defer; to put off; to lay aside.
v
(transitive) To save or hoard (something).
v
To temporarily recuse oneself from action or decision-making in some domain.
v
(intransitive) To abstain from participation.
v
To stand some distance apart from something or someone.
v
(obsolete) To outstay; to stay longer than.
v
(intransitive) To move out of the way of somebody or something.
v
(intransitive, idiomatic) To relocate oneself to a position of a few steps away; step aside.
v
(finance, transitive) To delay the purchase or sale of (a stock) while agreeing the price for later.
v
(transitive) To yield (something) to another, as when defeated.
v
(intransitive) To come to an end; to desist.
n
A complete end or halt; a surcease.
v
To halt something temporarily.
v
(chiefly US) To remove from the agenda, to postpone dealing with; to shelve (to indefinitely postpone consideration or discussion of something).
v
(idiomatic) To adopt a position of noninvolvement.
v
(idiomatic, often followed by from) To temporarily suspend an activity in order to do something else.
v
(intransitive) To delay; to be late or tardy in beginning or doing anything.
v
(intransitive) To deliberately act evasively or prolong a discussion in order to gain time or postpone a decision, sometimes so that a compromise can be reached or simply to make a conversation more temperate; to stall for time.
v
(intransitive) Of a mode of transport, to end its journey; or, of a railway line, to reach its terminus.
v
(idiomatic) to occur an apocalyptic event.
v
(intransitive) To delay or stall for time, as for an audience.
v
(obsolete, colloquial) To defer or postpone (especially a meal).
v
(transitive, obsolete) To carry or bear (something) away.
v
(intransitive) To stay back.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To set oneself against; oppose; resist.
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