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Postponed synonyms and antonyms

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deferred
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stayed
To pause; tarry; wait; delay
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retarded
The definition of retarded is delayed, or is a politically incorrect term for someone who has a mental handicap.
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withheld
That one has withheld; kept from the possession or knowledge of another.
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suspended
Hung from above.
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remitted
Remit is defined as to forgive or to send a payment.
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waived
Waive is defined as to give up your right to something or to determine that someone else can postpone fulfilling an obligation.
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waited
To be a waiter or waitress at:
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temporized
To suit one's actions to the time, occasion, or circumstances, without reference to principle
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reprieved
To reprieve is to provide temporary or permanent relief from punishment.
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procrastinated
To postpone or delay needlessly.
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prevaricated
To prevaricate is to dance around the truth or speak evasively.
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pigeonholed
To put aside indefinitely, as if intending to ignore or forget; shelve
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forborne
Forbear is defined as to stop yourself from doing something.
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equivocated
(Intransitive) To use words of equivocal or doubtful signification; to express one's opinions in terms which admit of different senses, with intent to deceive; to use ambiguous expressions with a view to mislead; as, to equivocate is the work of duplicity.
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continued
(Intransitive) to resume
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maintained (antonym)
To declare in a positive way; assert
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persevered (antonym)
To continue in some effort, course of action, etc. in spite of difficulty, opposition, etc.; be steadfast in purpose; persist
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expedited (antonym)
Expedite is defined as to make something happen more quickly.
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forwarded (antonym)
In or toward the future:
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done (antonym)
Used to serve as part of a negative command or statement
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shelved
(Not comparable) Of or pertaining to a shelving; having shelves.
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late (related)
(Not comparable, euphemistic) Deceased, dead: used particularly when speaking of the dead person's actions while alive. (Often used with the; see usage notes.)
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tabled
To tabulate; to put into a table.
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delayed
To put off until a later time; to defer.
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adjourned
To briefly delay, suspend, or postpone a court proceeding. See also continuance.
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set for a later time
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to be done later
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staved off
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prorogued
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Postponed Sentence Examples

  • Josephus, whose pretences had postponed the final assault, hid in a cave with forty men.

  • The occasion was not to be long postponed.

  • When a similar motion was brought forward in the Lords the consideration of it was postponed to the following year, in order to give time for the examination of witnesses by a committee of the House.

  • On the 23rd of July all was confusion at the depots, and the leaders were divided as to the course to be pursued; orders were not obeyed; a trusted messenger despatched for arms absconded with the money committed to him to pay for them; treachery, quite unsuspected by Emmet, honeycombed the conspiracy; the Wicklow contingent failed to appear; the Kildare men turned back on hearing that the rising had been postponed; a signal expected by a contingent at the Broadstone was never given.

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