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third-person singular simple present procrastinates, present participle procrastinating, simple past and past participle procrastinated
(intransitive) To delay taking action; to wait until later. examples
(transitive) To put off; to delay (something). quotations examples
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