English to Estonian Meaning of protract - pikendama

Protract :

pikendama

verb

pikendama, viivitus, aeglane, riputama, hoidma, tagasi panema, pikenema, esile tuua, tootma, käesolev

Protract :: pikendamaProtracted :: pikaajalineProtracting :: pikendadesProtracts :: protracts

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Definitions of protract in English

Verb(1) lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer

Examples of protract in English

(1) His strategy was to protract negotiations until the enemy were exhausted, while assembling the forces necessary to crush them.(2) To deprive a successful litigant of interest on his or her legal costs is to encourage the losing side to delay and protract the assessment process.(3) The ├ö├ç├┐winner-take-all electoral vote├ö├ç├û practice can avoid prolonged county by county vote count, which will inevitably protract the delivery of a new president.(4) Men and women are encouraged to protract their sexually active lives, regardless of desire.(5) I could have just said that there were lots of other options for GPs these days, but that would have simply protracted the conversation.(6) And for the Chinese, the longer this protracts , the more difficult it becomes to keep it out of the international incident stage and handle it well.(7) As a consequence, fluorophores in the spine neck and in the parent dendrite may get bleached, leading to a protraction of the diffusional refilling of the spine head.(8) There are examples of opponents who achieved equally dramatic successes by protracting or slowing the operational tempo.(9) Strong pitch control in these birds apparently involves the protraction and retraction of the wings to move the center of lift anterior and posterior respectively, which in turn causes the bird to pitch up or down.(10) That's why many antispammers squarely blame the trade group for protracting the junk-email war.(11) In other words, a prudent, asymmetric-thinking enemy manipulates time and space to disperse the greater power's military forces, protracting the conflict and wearing down the will of the orthodox opponent.(12) He still protracts the i in time, but his pronunciation seems deliberately disharmonic.(13) We've been in such a hurry for all these years for one main reason - the more the negotiations are protracted , the more difficult they become, which can be easily noticed.

Related Phrases of protract

(1) protract ::

pikendama

(2) pro ::

pro

(3) tract ::

trakt

Related Phrases of protract

(1) protract ::

pikendama

(2) pro ::

pro

(3) tract ::

trakt

Synonyms

Verb

1. prolong ::

pikendama

2. lengthen ::

pikenema

3. extend ::

laiendama

4. draw out ::

venitama

5. drag out ::

Venitada

6. spin out ::

venitama

7. stretch out ::

venitama

8. string out ::

pikaks venima

9. elongate ::

pikenema

11. continue ::

jätkama

12. keep up ::

jätkama

13. perpetuate ::

jäädvustama

Antonyms

1. abbreviate ::

lühendama

2. abridge ::

kärpima

3. curtail ::

kärpima

4. cut ::

lõigatud

5. shorten ::

lühendama

Different Forms

protract, protracted, protracting, protracts

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