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verb (used with object)
1.
to draw out or lengthen, especially in time; extend the duration of; prolong.
2.
Anatomy. to extend or protrude.
3.
(in surveying, mathematics, etc.) to plot and draw (lines) with a scale and a protractor.
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Protracted
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Example Sentences
- The current global economic and financial meltdown may yet become something worse: a protracted global depression.
- The withdrawn bid ends a protracted disagreement over price and regulator approval.
- But chief executives cannot renew cultures without years of protracted and increasingly disseminated effort to that end.
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