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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (2)

1. postpone doing what one should be doing;
- Example: "He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days"
[syn: procrastinate, stall, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, shillyshally, dilly-dally, dillydally]

2. postpone or delay needlessly;
- Example: "He procrastinated the matter until it was almost too late"



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Procrastinate \Pro*cras"ti*nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
   Procrastinated; p. pr. & vb. n. Procrastinating.] [L.
   procrastinatus, p. p. of procrastinare to procrastinate; pro
   forward + crastinus of to-morrow, fr. cras to-morrow.]
   To put off till to-morrow, or from day to day; to defer; to
   postpone; to delay; as, to procrastinate repentance. --Dr. H.
   More.
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         Hopeless and helpless Aegeon wend,
         But to procrastinate his lifeless end.   --Shak.
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   Syn: To postpone; adjourn; defer; delay; retard; protract;
        prolong.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Procrastinate \Pro*cras"ti*nate\, v. i.
   To delay; to be dilatory.
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         I procrastinate more than I did twenty years ago.
                                                  --Swift.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

procrastinate
    v 1: postpone doing what one should be doing; "He did not want
         to write the letter and procrastinated for days" [syn:
         procrastinate, stall, drag one's feet, drag one's
         heels, shillyshally, dilly-dally, dillydally]
    2: postpone or delay needlessly; "He procrastinated the matter
       until it was almost too late"