delays
Meaning of delays
verb, 3rd person present
- make (someone or something) late or slow.
the train was delayed
- a period of time by which something is late or postponed.
a two-hour delay
long delays in obtaining passports
Middle English: from Old French delayer (verb).
Information about delays
- The singular form of delays is: delay.
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Hyphenation of delays
de-lays
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- delays is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
delays 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:
Meaning a period of waiting:
Meaning a thing that provides resistance, delay, or obstruction to something or someone:
Meaning a hindrance or obstruction in doing something:
Meaning the action of obstructing or the state of being obstructed:
Meaning a reversal or check in progress:
Meaning an intervening time:
Meaning a space or interval; a break in continuity:
Meaning an intervening period of time; an interval:
Meaning the action of postponing something; deferral:
Meaning a postponement of an action or event:
Meaning the action or fact of putting something off to a later time; postponement:
Meaning a suspension or postponement of judicial proceedings:
Meaning a short delay permitted before an unpleasant obligation is met or a punishment is carried out:
Meaning change the time of (a planned event):
Meaning an act or period of adjourning or being adjourned:
Meaning the action of carrying something on over time or the state of being carried on:
Anagrams of delays
Words that rhyme with delays
lays, Malays, alays, malays, palays, blays, ballclays, brickclays, clays, fireclays, pipeclays, underclays, belays, forelays, gondelays, owrelays, relays, rokelays, roundelays, virelays, flays, rocklays, allays, cullays, mellays, inlays, onlays, unlays, airplays, byplays, counterplays, displays, downplays, endplays, foreplays, gunplays, handplays, horseplays, interplays, misplays, nonplays, outplays, overplays, photoplays, plays, powerplays, redisplays, replays, screenplays, splays
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