Crossword-Solution: PROLONG
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Prolong | a. | To extend in space or length; as, to prolong a line. |
| Prolong | a. | To lengthen in time; to extend the duration of; to draw out; to continue; as, to prolong one's days. |
| Prolong | a. | To put off to a distant time; to postpone. |
We have 32 clues for the answer “PROLONG”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| make (something) last longer | 1 answer |
| The meeting was drawn out until midnight | 1 answer |
| Make more lengthy | 1 answer |
| For actress Shelley or Nia? | 1 answer |
| Extend the duration of | 1 answer |
| Antonym of "abbreviate" | 1 answer |
| lengthen in time | 2 answers |
| EXTEND in time | 2 answers |
| Make longer in time | 2 answers |
| Cause to continue for a long time or indefinitely | 3 answers |
| LENGTHEN time | 3 answers |
| CAUSE TO BE OR LAST LONGER | 11 answers |
| Lengthen | 15 answers |
| Draw out | 15 answers |
| Elongate | 17 answers |
| outlast | 20 answers |
| outlive | 20 answers |
| Stretch (out) | 21 answers |
| Keep up | 21 answers |
| unroll | 22 answers |
| prorogue | 23 answers |
| protract | 25 answers |
| Procrastinate. | 32 answers |
| DRAG out | 36 answers |
| Suspend | 36 answers |
| Postpone | 41 answers |
| Defer | 42 answers |
| CARRY through | 42 answers |
| Preserve | 44 answers |
| Persist | 44 answers |
| Persevere | 52 answers |
| Extend | 54 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PROLONG (5)
The Shepherds discovered him, and some threw sticks at him and pelted him with stones, while others, moved with compassion towards one about to die even though no one should hurt him, threw in some food to prolong his life.
For whither is he gone? what accident Hath rapt him from us? will he now retire 40 After appearance, and again prolong Our expectation? God of Israel, Send thy Messiah forth; the time is come.
What, therefore, the wage-labourer appropriates by means of his labour, merely suffices to prolong and reproduce a bare existence.
But it were folly to lay any stress on stories of this kind, which are sure to spring up around such an event as that now related, and which, as in the present case, sometimes prolong themselves for ages afterwards, like the toadstools that indicate where the fallen and buried trunk of a tree has long since mouldered into the earth.
Prince John, in league with Philip of France, Cœur-de-Lion’s mortal enemy, was using every species of influence with the Duke of Austria, to prolong the captivity of his brother Richard, to whom he stood indebted for so many favours.
Quotes with PROLONG (3)
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
There is a danger there - a very real danger to humanity. Consider, Watson, that the material, the sensual, the worldly would all prolong their worthless lives. The spiritual would not avoid the call to something higher. It would be the survival of the least fit. What sort of cesspool may not our poor world become?
Prolong not the past Invite not the future Do not alter your innate wakefulness Fear not appearances There in nothing more than this
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1972–2020).