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Meaning prolong meaning

What does prolong mean?
Definitions in simple English

prolong Verb

— lengthen in time Let's hope a blizzard will not prolong our visit with your mother. Don't prolong our misery by refusing to leave. The storm prolonged our stay at the ski lodge. Your presence is only prolonging my misery.

prolong

— verb (= extend, draw out) lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer We prolonged our stay She extended her visit by another day The meeting was drawn out until midnight — verb (= sustain, keep up) lengthen or extend in duration or space We sustained the diplomatic negotiations as long as possible prolong the treatment of the patient keep up the good work

Synonyms prolong synonyms

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prolong English » English

extend lengthen elongate draw out protract delay continue drag out sustain stretch out stretch spin out prolongate postpone make longer keep up widen strain spin retard renew procrastinate lengthening expand enlarge detain defer wait for tense stetch stall spread sprawl slow slacken show off shelve roll over reach out reach put out protend prolongation prolong for more time project outstretch open maintain long-winded leng-then

Conjugation prolong conjugation

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prolong · verb

Examples prolong examples

How do I use prolong in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I'd like to prolong my stay in America.
If we don't make it we need to prolong the period of time.
If we don't make it, we shall need to prolong the time frame.
If we don't make it, we'll need to prolong the time frame.
Prolong the agony.
Gooseberries can prolong your life.

Movie subtitles

I don't want to prolong my life.
One of the undead who has been able to prolong his life beyond its natural limits by feeding on the blood of other living creatures.
Why prolong it?
Creatures who have never died, who prolong their unnatural lives by draining the blood of the living.
That could prolong this conflict for years.
I knew that if it did, it'd prolong the war.
Now, my good man, I do not choose to prolong this tawdry bickering any further.
But it's our desire to shorten this hearing, not prolong it.
May slumber prolong your dream of happiness.
A physician's task is to prolong life, Sire.
If we could delay or prolong the period in which the body is apparently dead while the heart is alive we'd have a living body with only the barest life-spark present.
Want to prolong your suffering a little?
Why prolong that suffering?
It'll only prolong the agony.
No, I don't care to prolong this farce.
To the effect that centuries ago one of your ancestors sold his soul to the devil. and still lives in a secret room in Hammond Hall issuing forth at intervals. to make the sacrifice of a human life in order to prolong his own.
I see no reason to prolong this trip.
I prefer to prolong this great dream for a few hours.
I'll prolong it.
Of course, you could prolong things by asking for a nightcap.
ROG ER, PLEASE, LET'S NOT PROLONG THIS ANY LONG ER.
It'll just prolong it.
Yes, don't prolong this the inevitable.
Do you want to prolong my agony?
Surely we need not prolong this interview.
It would only prolong our wait for death by a short period of time.
Lovers often hesitate, not out of shyness but to prolong their awaiting happiness.
We must acknowledge once and for all that the purpose of diplomacy is to prolong a crisis.
First tell me how to prolong my youth.
Prolong military service to improve virility and character!
Don't prolong the agony.
The immortality that I gave you was the only way to prolong these carefree days.

News and current affairs

But any attempt to prolong Kuchma's rule will create such a political mess that it is not absurd to fear that Ukraine could follow Belarus and the Balkans of the early 1990's into outright dictatorship and chaos.
He will be remembered for accepting the painful secession of Eritrea in 1993, rather than prolong the civil war, and for his efforts to reach an agreement with Egypt over the use of the Blue Nile waters.
By taking an essentially passive position, this approach might merely prolong the Age of Terrorism needlessly.
Apparently, Dutch doctors are letting their patients die the old-fashioned way, rather than use the expensive new techniques to prolong their lives.
Muddling through as before would only escalate and prolong the crisis.
If China's leaders continue to choose debt-fueled growth over reform, they will only delay, and possibly prolong, the inevitable slowdown.
Short-sighted responses by politicians - who hope to get by with a deal that is small enough to please taxpayers and large enough to please the banks - will only prolong the problem.
The war, and the way it has been conducted, has reduced America's room for maneuver, and will almost surely deepen and prolong the economic downturn.
Some have even sought to prolong conflicts, believing that to do so serves their national interests.
To try to cut spending in a slump, as Osborne is doing, is to prolong the slump.
The alternative - an attempt at negotiation between Syria's government and an increasingly fragmented opposition - would serve only to prolong the war and raise the death toll.
Obviously, failure to reach a power-sharing agreement will prolong political instability.
Banks' short-sightedness helped create the crisis; we cannot let government short-sightedness - prodded by the financial sector - prolong it.
We doggedly fight to prolong life, only to find that we cannot win this battle - and are left unable to produce authentic rituals to accompany the end of our existence.
As a result, Turkey wants to prolong, at all costs, the time available for diplomacy.
Arab authoritarian regimes, unlike others that have given way to democracy, are incapable of self-reform; they have, however, mastered the tactics needed to prolong the life spans of their aging despotisms.
And the crises that often divide the leveraging and deleveraging phases cause additional balance-sheet damage and prolong the healing process.
Obviously, failure to reach a power-sharing agreement will prolong political instability. But the resulting economic inaction would be just as damaging to the consolidation of democratic rule.
When it comes to Russia today, appeasement will not lead to peace; on the contrary, a conciliatory approach will only prolong the conflict.
But relying upon population growth and desertification to prolong their lives would be robbing Peter to pay Paul.
Many fear that Russia's latest activism will not only prolong Syria's brutal civil war, but also strengthen the Islamic State.
Terror can prolong the agony, but in the end an illegitimate regime is doomed.
But will such drugs prolong youth and vitality, or simply extend our stay in nursing homes?
Moreover, to cut back expenditures now, in the midst of an ongoing crisis brought on by free-market ideology, would inevitably simply prolong the downturn.

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