Protracted can be categorized as a verb and an adjective.
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| protracted - relatively long in duration; tediously protracted; "a drawn-out argument"; "an extended discussion"; "a lengthy visit from her mother-in-law"; "a prolonged and bitter struggle"; "protracted negotiations" | ||
Verb |
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| protract - 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" |
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| 1. | adj. | Protracted negotiations. | |
| 2. | adj. | Because of the protracted depression, many workers are unemployed. | |
| 3. | adj. | More and more divorcing couples are undertaking protracted and expensive legal proceedings for custody rights over the family pets. | |
| 4. | adj. | Saturn's daughter, fearing it, and remembering the protracted war which she had first waged at Troy on behalf of her beloved Argives -- the causes of her anger and her fierce grievances had still not died down in her soul. | |
| 5. | adj. | Their interview was protracted beyond that at which they usually parted. | |
| 6. | adj. | A protracted independence struggle with France ended successfully in 1956. |
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| Protracted negotiations. |
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| Because of the protracted depression, many workers are unemployed. | |
| More and more divorcing couples are undertaking protracted and expensive legal proceedings for custody rights over the family pets. | |
| Saturn's daughter, fearing it, and remembering the protracted war which she had first waged at Troy on behalf of her beloved Argives -- the causes of her anger and her fierce grievances had still not died down in her soul. | |
| Their interview was protracted beyond that at which they usually parted. | |
| A protracted independence struggle with France ended successfully in 1956. | |