- present participle of protract.
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It’s good that the bar at Itsumono is a fine hangout, because as the place fills up you will hang out, with waits between drinks protracting even with two barkeeps at work.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 2, 2023
Protrac′tion, act of protracting or prolonging: the delaying of the termination of a thing: the plotting or laying down of the dimensions of anything on paper.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
“I am already half drowned, and it is only protracting my sufferings.”
—The opposite extreme of the protracting of Education beyond its proper time is necessarily the undue hastening of the Emancipation.—The question whether one is prepared for freedom has been often opened in politics.
From Pedagogics as a System by Brackett, Anna C. (Anna Callender)
They would talk for the mere purpose of protracting litigation, injure their clients by vexations and bootless delays, and do their work so that they might be fed for doing it again.
From A Book About Lawyers by Jeaffreson, John Cordy