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Procrastinate


PROCRAS'TINATE, verb transitive [Latin procrastinor; pro and crastinus; cras, to-morrow.] To put off from day to day; to delay; to defer to a future time; as, to procrastinate repentance.

PROCRAS'TINATE, verb intransitive To delay; to be dilatory.

I procrastinate more than I did twenty years ago.