procrastinates
procrastinates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of procrastinate.
Meaning of procrastinate
Verb
procrastinate (third-person singular simple present procrastinates, present participle procrastinating, simple past and past participle procrastinated)
- To delay taking action; to wait until later.
- He procrastinated until the last minute and had to stay up all night to finish.
- To put off; to delay (something).
- Hence It became manifest to the publishers of Webster, that some device must be resorted to, to induce apathy in the publick mind, and thereby procrastinate the inevitable crisis which they foresaw was approaching, the expulsion of his elementary works from our primary schools.1816, John Pickering, A vocabulary; or, Collection of words and phrases, page 4
Questions about procrastinates
- What is procrastinates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
- Procrastinates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of procrastinate.
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