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PROTRACTED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Relatively long in duration; tediously protracted
Example:
protracted negotiations
Synonyms:
drawn-out; extended; lengthy; prolonged; protracted
Classified under:
Similar:
long (primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb protract
Context examples:
Mr. Knightley, who had nothing of ceremony about him, was offering by his short, decided answers, an amusing contrast to the protracted apologies and civil hesitations of the other.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
His two dogs were missing, and he well knew that they had served as a course in the protracted meal which had begun days before with Fatty, the last course of which would likely be himself in the days to follow.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Stimulated by the silent monitor within, and by a no less touching and appealing monitor without—to whom I will briefly refer as Miss W. I entered on a not unlaborious task of clandestine investigation, protracted—now, to the best of my knowledge, information, and belief, over a period exceeding twelve calendar months.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Business now began, the day's Collect was repeated, then certain texts of Scripture were said, and to these succeeded a protracted reading of chapters in the Bible, which lasted an hour.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
But I feel mine is not the existence to be long protracted under an Indian sun.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Mr. St. John came but once: he looked at me, and said my state of lethargy was the result of reaction from excessive and protracted fatigue.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
After the Easter recess, Sir George Lynn, who was lately elected member for Millcote, will have to go up to town and take his seat; I daresay Mr. Rochester will accompany him: it surprises me that he has already made so protracted a stay at Thornfield.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
A peep, and then a long stare; and then a departure from my niche and a straying out into the meadow; and a sudden stop full in front of the great mansion, and a protracted, hardy gaze towards it.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
