delaying
Meaning of delaying
verb, gerund or present participle
- make (someone or something) late or slow.
the train was delayed
Middle English: from Old French delayer (verb).
Information about delaying
- It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of delaying
de-lay-ing
- It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
- delaying is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
delaying synonyms
Meaning keep (someone) from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention:
Meaning delay or hold back in terms of progress or development:
Meaning make it difficult for (someone) to do something or for (something) to happen:
Meaning a basket with a carrying handle and a hinged lid, used for food, cutlery, and plates on a picnic:
Meaning delay or prevent (someone or something) by obstructing them; hinder:
Meaning (in various sports) impede (a player in the opposing team) in a manner which constitutes an offence:
Words that rhyme with delaying
betra'ying, Maying, abraying, affraying, alaying, allaying, apaying, appaying, arraying, assaying, baying, belaying, bendaying, beraying, betraying, bewraying, bioassaying, braying, bricklaying, cardplaying, causewaying, claying, daying, decaying, deejaying, defraying, denaying, deraying, disarraying, dismaying, displaying, doomsaying, downplaying, draying, effraying, embaying, endplaying, essaying, estraying, faying, flaying, foraying, forelaying, foresaying, forraying, forsaying, fraying, gainsaying, gatewaying, graying
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