Crossword-Solution: PROTRACT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Protract | v. t. | To draw out or lengthen in time or (rarely) in space; to continue; to prolong; as, to protract an argument; to protract a war. |
| Protract | v. t. | To put off to a distant time; to delay; to defer; as, to protract a decision or duty. |
| Protract | v. t. | To draw to a scale; to lay down the lines and angles of, with scale and protractor; to plot. |
| Protract | v. t. | To extend; to protrude; as, the cat can protract its claws; -- opposed to retract. |
| Protract | n. | Tedious continuance or delay. |
We have 29 clues for the answer “PROTRACT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| lengthen or extend (a situation etc) | 1 answer |
| Strech out | 1 answer |
| Draw out, prolong | 1 answer |
| lengthen in time | 2 answers |
| EXTEND in time | 2 answers |
| LENGTHEN time | 3 answers |
| Draw out | 15 answers |
| Lengthen | 15 answers |
| Elongate | 17 answers |
| outlast | 20 answers |
| outlive | 20 answers |
| Stretch (out) | 21 answers |
| unroll | 22 answers |
| prorogue | 23 answers |
| prolong | 23 answers |
| Adjourn | 29 answers |
| Procrastinate. | 32 answers |
| Tarry | 34 answers |
| Suspend | 36 answers |
| DRAG out | 36 answers |
| Postpone | 41 answers |
| Defer | 42 answers |
| CARRY through | 42 answers |
| Preserve | 44 answers |
| Persist | 44 answers |
| Persevere | 52 answers |
| Extend | 54 answers |
| Stretch | 56 answers |
| Hold up | 57 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REATE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PROTRACT (5)
What, even, if he got away from the camp in safety before any returned with the true story of his guilt—of what value would this advantage be other than to protract for a few days his mental torture and his life? These hard riders, familiar with every trail and bypath, would get him long before he could hope to reach the coast.
There was some merit in my scruples, for Miss Tita lingered and lingered: I perceived that she felt that she should not really soon come down again and wished therefore to protract the present.
Lily, however, was not among them, and her absence served to protract the effect she had produced on Selden: it would have broken the spell to see her too soon in the surroundings from which accident had so happily detached her.
LIV “No longer then let us protract the time, But scale the bulwark of this fortress high, Through sweat and labor gainst those rocks sublime Let us ascend, which to the southward lie; Hard will it be that way in arms to climb, But yet the place and passage both know I, And that high wall by site strong on that part, Is least defenced by arms, by work and art.
The delicate-handed gentleman was a match for the workman in everything but strength, and Arthur’s skill enabled him to protract the struggle for some long moments.
Quotes with PROTRACT (2)
O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle -- be Thou near them! With them -- in spirit -- we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay w…
Everyone defends his treasure, and will do so automatically. The real questions are, what do you treasure, and how much do you treasure it? Once you have learned to consider these questions and to bring them into all your actions, you will have little difficulty in clarifying the means. The means are available whenever you ask. You can, however, save time if you do not protract this step unduly. The correct focus will shorten it immeasurably.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1970–2016).