"To delay" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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延长 yán cháng to prolong / to extend / to delay
耽误 dān wu to delay / to hold up / to waste time / to interfere with
延期 yán qī to delay / to extend / to postpone / to defer
拖延 tuō yán to delay / to put off / to procrastinate
推 tuī to push / to cut / to refuse / to reject / to decline / to shirk (responsibility) / to put off / to delay / to push forward / to nominate / to elect / massage
延迟 yán chí to delay / to postpone / to keep putting sth off / to procrastinate / (computing) to lag
延误 yán wu to delay / to be held up / to miss (an opportunity) / delay / holdup
耽搁 dān ge to tarry / to delay / to stop over
延后 yán hòu to postpone / to defer / to delay
迟延 chí yán to delay
误 wù mistake / error / to miss / to harm / to delay / to neglect / mistakenly
延 yán to prolong / to extend / to delay
拖 tuō to drag / to tow / to trail / to hang down / to mop (the floor) / to delay / to drag on
耗 hào to waste / to spend / to consume / to squander / news / (coll.) to delay / to dilly-dally
挨 ái to suffer / to endure / to pull through (hard times) / to delay / to stall / to play for time / to dawdle
淹 yān to flood / to submerge / to drown / to irritate the skin (of liquids) / to delay
奄 yān variant of 閹|阉[yan1] / to castrate / variant of 淹[yan1] / to delay
迟误 chí wù to delay / to procrastinate
延搁 yán gē to delay / to procrastinate
悮 wù to impede / to delay / variant of 誤|误[wu4]
拖宕 tuō dàng to delay / to postpone
挨延 ái yán to delay / to stretch out / to play for time
推宕 tuī dàng to postpone / to delay / to put sth off
磨烦 mò fan to pester / to bother sb incessantly / to delay / to prevaricate
缓办 huǎn bàn to postpone / to delay
愆期 qiān qī (formal) to delay / to miss a deadline / to fail to do sth at the appointed time
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