Skip to main content

protraction

/proh-trak-shuhn, pruh-/US // proʊˈtræk ʃən, prə- //UK // (prəˈtrækʃən) //

拖延时间,延长时间,延长,拖延症

Related Words

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of protracting; prolongation; extension.
    • : protrusion.
    • : something that is protracted.
    • : a drawing or rendering to scale.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounextension

Examples

  • The voyager embarks, and is in all probability confined to his cabin, suffering under the dreadful protraction of seasickness.

  • This, my Lords, is the kind of damage which he has suffered by the want of witnesses, through the protraction of this trial.

  • The only great dread is the protraction of life into imbecility or the visitation of lingering pain.

  • It was evident that we were in a pitfall, and that resistance was only the protraction of a fate which was now inevitable.

  • It was a protraction only of what is worst in life; it was in no way a completion of what is best in it.