temporizes
Meaning of temporizes
verb
- To deliberately act evasively or prolong a discussion in order to gain time or postpone a decision, sometimes in order to reach a compromise or simply to make a conversation more temperate; to stall for time.
- To apply a temporary piece of dental work that will later be removed.
- To comply with the time or occasion; to humor, or yield to, the current of opinion or circumstances; also, to trim, as between two parties.
- To delay; to procrastinate.
- To comply; to agree.
Information about temporizes
- It is a verb.
- The singular form of temporizes is: temporize.
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Hyphenation of temporizes
tem-po-rizes
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- temporizes is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
Words that rhyme with temporizes
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