procrastinate : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: procrastinate	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for procrastinate
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
procrastinate v postpone doing what one should be doing; "He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days" Synonym(s): procrastinate, stall, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, shillyshally, dilly-dally, dillydally postpone or delay needlessly; "He procrastinated the matter until it was almost too late"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Procrastinate \Procras"tinate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Procrastinated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Procrastinating}.] [L. procrastinatus, p. p. of procrastinare to procrastinate; pro forward + crastinus of to-morrow, fr. cras to-morrow.] To put off till to-morrow, or from day to day; to defer; to postpone; to delay; as, to procrastinate repentance. --Dr. H. More. Hopeless and helpless [92]geon wend, But to procrastinate his lifeless end. --Shak. Syn: To postpone; adjourn; defer; delay; retard; protract; prolong.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Procrastinate \Procras"tinate\, v. i. To delay; to be dilatory. I procrastinate more than I did twenty years ago. --Swift.