protract Definition

prolong, extend, draw out, lengthen, embroil, shorten, frustrate, protractile, forestall, ameliorate, embitter, politicize, complicate, derail, obviate, aggravate, surcease, avert, extenuate, obfuscate, expiate, hasten, provoke, instigate, precipitate, palliate, intensify, derange, communalize, paralyze, exacerbate, communalise, efface, aggrandise, vitiate, smoothen, extirpate, marginalize, avoid, becloud, resolve, undermine, hinder, obstruct, elucidate, retrogress, impede, ramify, stalemating, demoralize, conciliate, stultify, eternalize, europeanize, secularise, sparing, estrange, entangle, perpetuate, expedite, destabilize, humanise, concretize, depersonalize, dissociating, debilitate, depoliticize, undo, vindicate, unburden, revivify, impends, exculpate, disorganize, deepen, scuttle, distract, particularize, legitimatize, moliminous, sufficing, attenuate, legitimize, judaize, dramatize, abate, lessen, alienate, abjuring, beleaguer, enmesh, denude, forebode, unsnarl, adduce, longspun, dispirit, postpone, relativize, exasperate,