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procrastinating

procrastinating is the present participle and gerund of procrastinate.

Meaning of procrastinate

Verb

procrastinate (third-person singular simple present procrastinates, present participle procrastinating, simple past and past participle procrastinated)

  1. (intransitive) To delay taking action; to wait until later.
    • He procrastinated until the last minute and had to stay up all night to finish.
  2. (transitive) 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 procrastinating

What is procrastinating the present participle and gerund of?
Procrastinating is the present participle and gerund of procrastinate.

Words near procrastinating in the dictionary

  1. procrastibaking
  2. procrasticleaning
  3. procrastinate
  4. procrastinated
  5. procrastinates
  6. procrastinating
  7. procrastinatingly
  8. procrastination
  9. procrastination is the thief of time
  10. procrastinations
  11. procrastinative

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