Usually means: Extending duration or time further.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word Prolonging:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. prolonging: Merriam-Webster
  2. prolonging: Collins English Dictionary
  3. prolonging: Vocabulary.com
  4. Prolonging, prolonging: Wordnik
  5. prolonging: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. prolonging: Wiktionary
  7. Prolonging, prolonging: Dictionary.com
  8. prolonging: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Prolonging: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Prolonging: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. prolonging: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. prolonging: FreeDictionary.org
  13. prolonging: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prolonging: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  prolongation

Similar:
protract, extend, draw out, sustain, keep up, prolongation, prorogation, proroguing, proroguement, protraction, more...

Opposite:
shortening, abbreviating, reducing, curtailing

Types:
delaying, extending, stretching, lengthening, protracting, dragging out, perpetuating, sustaining, continuing, more...

Phrases:
Prolonging the Magic, more...

Adjectives:
worth, life, indefinite, needless, unnecessary, mere, artificial, slight, weary, further, simple

Colors:
    teal,     olive,     sage,     mauve,     lavender, more...



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Similar:
protract, extend, draw out, sustain, keep up, prolongation, prorogation, proroguing, proroguement, protraction, more...

Opposite:
shortening, abbreviating, reducing, curtailing

Types:
delaying, extending, stretching, lengthening, protracting, dragging out, perpetuating, sustaining, continuing, more...

Phrases:
Prolonging the Magic, more...

Adjectives:
worth, life, indefinite, needless, unnecessary, mere, artificial, slight, weary, further, simple

Colors:
    teal,     olive,     sage,     mauve,     lavender, more...



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