delaying

Meaning of delaying

verb, gerund or present participle
  1. 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:

detain

Meaning delay or hold back in terms of progress or development:

retard

Meaning make it difficult for (someone) to do something or for (something) to happen:

hinder

Meaning a basket with a carrying handle and a hinged lid, used for food, cutlery, and plates on a picnic:

hamper

Meaning delay or prevent (someone or something) by obstructing them; hinder:

impede

Meaning (in various sports) impede (a player in the opposing team) in a manner which constitutes an offence:

obstruct

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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