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protraction

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The voyager embarks, and is in all probability confined to his cabin, suffering under the dreadful protraction of seasickness.

This, my Lords, is the kind of damage which he has suffered by the want of witnesses, through the protraction of this trial.

The only great dread is the protraction of life into imbecility or the visitation of lingering pain.

It was evident that we were in a pitfall, and that resistance was only the protraction of a fate which was now inevitable.

It was a protraction only of what is worst in life; it was in no way a completion of what is best in it.

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On this page you'll find 53 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to protraction, such as: addendum, addition, adjunct, amplification, annex, and appendix.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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