Word Meanings - DEFER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To put off; to postpone to a future time; to delay the execution of; to delay; to withhold. Defer the spoil of the city until night. Shak. God . . . will not long defer To vindicate the glory of his name. Milton. (more info) different ways; dis-

Additional info about word: DEFER

To put off; to postpone to a future time; to delay the execution of; to delay; to withhold. Defer the spoil of the city until night. Shak. God . . . will not long defer To vindicate the glory of his name. Milton. (more info) different ways; dis- + ferre to bear. See Bear to support, and cf.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DEFER)

• Postpone
• Defer
• delay
• prorogue
• procrastinate
• Prorogue
• Adjourn
• postpone
• defer
• Protract
• Prolong
• produce
• elongate
• extend
• lengthen
• continue
• draw out
• Retard
• Clog
• hinder
• obstruct
• impede

Related words: (words related to DEFER)

• LENGTHEN
  To extent in length; to make longer in extent or duration; as, to lengthen a line or a road; to lengthen life; -- sometimes followed by out. What if I please to lengthen out his date. Dryden.
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• EXTENDLESSNESS
  Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.
• PROTRACTIVE
  Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing; delaying. He suffered their protractive arts. Dryden.
• DEFERENTIALLY
  With deference.
• OBSTRUCTIVE
  Tending to obstruct; presenting obstacles; hindering; causing impediment. -- Ob*struct"ive*ly, adv.
• EXTENDANT
  Displaced. Ogilvie.
• OBSTRUCTIONIST
  One who hinders progress; one who obstructs business, as in a legislative body. -- a.
• HINDEREST
  Hindermost; -- superl. of Hind, a. Chaucer.
• OBSTRUCTER
  One who obstructs or hinders.
• IMPEDE
  To hinder; to stop in progress; to obstruct; as, to impede the advance of troops. Whatever hinders or impedes The action of the nobler will. Logfellow.
• EXTEND
  To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent. Extended letter , a letter, or style of type, having a broader face than is usual for a letter or type of the same height. Note: This is extended
• OBSTRUCT
  before or against, to obstruct; ob + struere to pile up. 1. To block up; to stop up or close, as a way or passage; to place an obstacle in, or fill with obstacles or impediments that prevent or hinder passing; as, to obstruct a street;
• PROLONGE
  A rope with a hook and a toggle, sometimes used to drag a gun carriage or to lash it to the limber, and for various other purposes.
• POSTPONE
  1. To defer to a future or later time; to put off; also, to cause to be deferred or put off; to delay; to adjourn; as, to postpone the consideration of a bill to the following day, or indefinitely. His praise postponed, and never to be
• HINDERMOST; HINDMOST
  Furthest in or toward the rear; last. "Rachel and Joseph hindermost." Gen. xxxiii. 2. (more info) superlative from the same source as the comparative hinder. See
• PROCRASTINATE
  To put off till to-morrow, or from day to day; to defer; to postpone; to delay; as, to procrastinate repentance. Dr. H. More. Hopeless and helpless Ægeon wend, But to procrastinate his lifeless end. Shak. Syn. -- To postpone; adjourn; defer; delay;
• EXTENDIBLE
  Liable to be taken by a writ of extent. (more info) 1. Capable of being extended, susceptible of being stretched, extended, enlarged, widened, or expanded.
• POSTPONER
  One who postpones.
• DEFERENTIAL
  Expressing deference; accustomed to defer.
• DISCONTINUE
  To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off. Set up their conventicles again, which had been discontinued. Bp. Burnet. I have discontinued school
• READJOURN
  To adjourn a second time; to adjourn again.