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{
"term": "procrastinate",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "procrastinate",
"heSheIt": "procrastinates"
},
"pastSimple": "procrastinated",
"pastParticiple": "procrastinated",
"ingForm": "procrastinating"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to delay doing something that you should do, usually because you do not want to do it",
"examples": [
{
"text": "People were dying of starvation while governments procrastinated."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/prəˈkræstɪneɪt/",
"audio": "pr/procrastinate/procrastinate__gb_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/prəˈkræstɪneɪts/",
"audio": "pr/procrastinate/procrastinates__gb_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/prəˈkræstɪneɪtɪd/",
"audio": "pr/procrastinate/procrastinated__gb_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/prəˈkræstɪneɪtɪŋ/",
"audio": "pr/procrastinate/procrastinating__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/prəˈkræstɪneɪt/",
"audio": "pr/procrastinate/procrastinate__us_3.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/prəˈkræstɪneɪts/",
"audio": "pr/procrastinate/procrastinates__us_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/prəˈkræstɪneɪtɪd/",
"audio": "pr/procrastinate/procrastinated__us_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/prəˈkræstɪneɪtɪŋ/",
"audio": "pr/procrastinate/procrastinating__us_2.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late 16th cent.: from Latin procrastinat- ‘deferred till the morning’, from the verb procrastinare, from pro- ‘forward’ + crastinus ‘belonging to tomorrow’ (from cras ‘tomorrow’)."
}