protracting

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It’s good that the bar at Itsumono is a fine hangout, because as the place fills up you will hang out, with waits between drinks protracting even with two barkeeps at work.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 2, 2023

"I foresee little benefit to either of us from protracting it further."

From The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Lever, Charles James

Something cognate to this in the comparison of the power and the greatness of a motive will explain the persistent fatuity of the Boer in protracting his contest with Great Britain.

From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Nassau, Robert Hamill

And it is worse than useless for both to continue protracting the argument, when they know that the opinion of neither will be shaken.

From The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book by Leslie, Eliza

Protrac′tion, act of protracting or prolonging: the delaying of the termination of a thing: the plotting or laying down of the dimensions of anything on paper.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various