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

They accused him of protracting the war for his own personal objects, either of ambition or avarice; and the soldiery, whose appetite for plunder had been often checked by Lucullus, readily joined in the outcry.

From A Smaller History of Rome by Smith, William, Sir

And if they catch any one in their toils, they entangle him in a thousand meshes, pretending sickness by way of protracting the consultations.

From The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens by Yonge, Charles Duke

The eager diligence of Blackmore, protracting his studies through the night, broke his health, and obliged him to fly to a country retreat.

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac

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