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put off

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  • verb transitive To procrastinate
  • verb transitive to delay (a task, event, or deadline)
  • verb transitive to offend, repulse, or frighten
  • adjective offended, repulsed
  • adjective daunted or fazed

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synonyms (168)

Words with the same meaning

  1. about the bush
  2. adjourn
  3. appall
  4. bear off
  5. beat around
  6. beg the question
  7. blind
  8. blunt
  9. cast off
  10. chill
  11. cloak
  12. color
  13. continue
  14. cool
  15. cover
  16. cover story
  17. cover-up
  18. dally
  19. damp
  20. dampen
  21. defer
  22. deflect
  23. delay
  24. deter
  25. device
  26. dillydally
  27. disaffect
  28. discourage
  29. disgust
  30. disincline
  31. disinterest
  32. distract
  33. divert
  34. dodge
  35. doff
  36. douse
  37. drag out
  38. drop
  39. duck
  40. embark
  41. equivocate
  42. excuse
  43. extend
  44. facade
  45. feint
  46. fence
  47. front
  48. get under way
  49. give offense
  50. gloss
  51. go off soundings
  52. go to sea
  53. gross out
  54. guise
  55. handle
  56. hang fire
  57. hang up
  58. haul off
  59. have way upon
  60. hedge
  61. hem and haw
  62. hold off
  63. hold over
  64. hold up
  65. horrify
  66. indispose
  67. lag
  68. lame excuse
  69. lay aside
  70. lay by
  71. lay over
  72. linger
  73. locus standi
  74. loiter
  75. mask
  76. nauseate
  77. offend
  78. ostensible motive
  79. parry
  80. pigeonhole
  81. poke
  82. poor excuse
  83. postpone
  84. pretense
  85. pretension
  86. pretext
  87. procrastinate
  88. prolong
  89. prorogate
  90. prorogue
  91. protestation
  92. protract
  93. public motive
  94. pull away
  95. pull back
  96. push aside
  97. push off
  98. pussyfoot
  99. put aside
  100. put on ice
  101. put to sea
  102. quench
  103. recess
  104. recoil
  105. refuge
  106. remove
  107. repel
  108. reserve
  109. revolt
  110. run from
  111. sail
  112. sail away
  113. sail away from
  114. screen
  115. semblance
  116. set aside
  117. set by
  118. sham
  119. sheer off
  120. shelve
  121. shift
  122. shift off
  123. shock
  124. shove off
  125. show
  126. shrink
  127. shy
  128. shy away
  129. shy off
  130. sicken
  131. sidestep
  132. sleep on
  133. slip out of
  134. smoke screen
  135. stalking-horse
  136. stand from
  137. stand off
  138. stand over
  139. stave off
  140. stay
  141. steer away from
  142. step aside
  143. step out of
  144. stratagem
  145. stretch out
  146. subterfuge
  147. suspend
  148. swerve
  149. table
  150. take a recess
  151. take off
  152. tarry
  153. temporize
  154. throw off
  155. trail
  156. trick
  157. turn aside
  158. turn away
  159. turn from
  160. turn off
  161. turn the stomach
  162. undo
  163. unwrap
  164. varnish
  165. veil
  166. waive
  167. ward off
  168. wean from

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