Definition of Prolong

1. Verb. Lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer. "The meeting was drawn out until midnight"

Exact synonyms: Draw Out, Extend, Protract
Related verbs: Carry, Extend
Generic synonyms: Lengthen
Specialized synonyms: Extend, Temporise, Temporize, Spin, Spin Out
Derivative terms: Extendible, Prolongation, Prolongation, Prolongation, Protraction, Protraction

2. Verb. Lengthen or extend in duration or space. "Keep up the good work"
Exact synonyms: Keep Up, Sustain
Specialized synonyms: Continue, Keep, Keep On, Retain
Generic synonyms: Bear On, Carry On, Continue, Preserve, Uphold
Derivative terms: Prolongation, Prolongation, Sustainable, Sustainer, Sustenance

Definition of Prolong

1. v. t. To extend in space or length; as, to prolong a line.

Definition of Prolong

1. Verb. (transitive) To extend in space or length. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To lengthen in time; to extend the duration of; to draw out; to continue. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) To lengthen temporally; to put off to a distant time; to postpone. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Prolong

1. to lengthen in duration [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Prolong

prologized
prologizer
prologizes
prologizing
prologomenon
prologomenons
prologs
prologue
prologued
prologues
prologuing
prologuize
prologuized
prologuizes
prologuizing
prolong (current term)
prolongable
prolongate
prolongation
prolongational reduction
prolongational reductions
prolongations
prolonge
prolonge knot
prolonged
prolongedly
prolonger
prolongers
prolonges
prolonging

Literary usage of Prolong

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament: Including the Biblical by Wilhelm Gesenius, Edward Robinson (1844)
"... ie to protract, to con- 80 tinue, to prolong, Neh. 9, 30. P*. 36, 1 1 TIT^? ri'?t?" H®a prolong thy loring- kindness unto them that ..."

2. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1917)
"Am City 17:336-7 О '17 To prolong policy-holders' lives. Lit Digest 54: 188 Ja 27 '17 все also Soldiers, Disabled—Physical examination Physical fitness for ..."

3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1880)
"... him to say that from the first he counselled absolute inaction, but I thought he only did this to prolong operations, and his own consequent employment. ..."

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