verb
- Postpone doing what one should be doing.
- usage: "He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days"
- synonyms: stall, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, shillyshally, dilly-dally, dillydally
- Postpone or delay needlessly.
- usage: "He procrastinated the matter until it was almost too late"
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