Verb

• S: (v) procrastinate (procrastinate%2:42:00::), stall (stall%2:42:00::), drag one's feet (drag_one's_feet%2:42:00::), drag one's heels (drag_one's_heels%2:42:00::), shillyshally (shillyshally%2:42:02::), dilly-dally (dilly-dally%2:42:00::), dillydally (dillydally%2:42:00::) (postpone doing what one should be doing) "He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days"
• direct troponym / full troponym
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (v) delay (delay%2:42:00::) (act later than planned, scheduled, or required) "Don't delay your application to graduate school or else it won't be considered"
• S: (v) wait (wait%2:42:01::), hold off (hold_off%2:42:00::), hold back (hold_back%2:42:00::) (wait before acting) "the scientists held off announcing their results until they repeated the experiment"
• S: (v) act (act%2:41:00::), move (move%2:41:00::) (perform an action, or work out or perform (an action)) "think before you act"; "We must move quickly"; "The governor should act on the new energy bill"; "The nanny acted quickly by grabbing the toddler and covering him with a wet towel"
• derivationally related form
• sentence frame