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verb

Prolong v. t. (past & past part. prolonged; pres. part. prolonging)

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

To lengthen in time; to extend the duration of; to draw out; to continue; as, to prolong one's days. "Prolong awhile the traitor's life." "The unhappy queen with talk prolonged the night."

To put off to a distant time; to postpone.

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Etymology of 'Prolong'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... Madame, they are too far from us to afford immediate relief from the present dangers internally surrounding us. These are the points of fearful import. It is not the threats and menaces of a foreign army which can subdue a nation's internal factions. These only rouse them to prolong disorders. National commotions can be quelled only by national spirit, whose fury, once exhausted on those who have aroused it, leave it free to look within, and work a reform ...

— The Secret Memoirs of Louis XV./XVI, Complete • Madame du Hausset, an "Unknown English Girl" and the Princess Lamballe

... her backward and forward for a long time, and at last said, "If you had treated a dog in this way, you would have had your deserts from his sharp teeth." To this the Crow replied, "I despise the weak and yield to the strong. I know whom I may bully and whom I must flatter; and I thus prolong my life to ...

— Aesop's Fables • Aesop

... to Ulysses, excited at the thought of the approaching spectacle. One of the bags, transformed into a star, suddenly leaped forward. Its arms writhed like serpents seeking the recent arrival. In vain the guard pulled the thread up, wishing to prolong the chase. The tentacles clamped their irresistible openings upon the body of the victim, pulling upon the line with such force that it broke, the octopus falling on the ...

— Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) - A Novel • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

... Northern anti-slavery men criticized the act as the entering wedge for another great surrender to the enemy. Because of the uncertainty regarding the meaning of the law and the false hopes likely to be created, they maintained that it was fitted to foment discord and prolong the period of distrust between the two sections. At all events such was its ...

— The Anti-Slavery Crusade - Volume 28 In The Chronicles Of America Series • Jesse Macy

... prolong the situation," the Professor continued, in the same measured tones. "My brougham stands at the door. I beg that you will use it as your own. Perhaps it would be as well that you should leave the town without unnecessary delay. Your ...

— Round the Red Lamp - Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life • Arthur Conan Doyle

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