Synonyms of the word

prorogue

• v. (obsolete) To prolong or extend.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To defer.
• v. (transitive) To suspend (a parliamentary session) or to discontinue the meetings of (an assembly, parliament…

adjourn

• v. (transitive) To postpone.
• v. (transitive) To defer; to put off temporarily or indefinitely.
• v. (intransitive) To end or suspend an event.
• v. (intransitive, formal, uncommon) To move from one place to another.

defer

• v. (transitive) To delay or postpone; especially to postpone induction into military service.
• v. (American football) After winning the opening coin toss, to postpone until the start of the second half…
• v. (intransitive) To delay, to wait.
• v. (law) To submit to the opinion or desire of another in respect to their judgment or authority.
• v. To render, to offer.

delay

• n. A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.
• v. To put off until a later time; to defer.
• v. To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time.
• v. (obsolete) To allay; to temper.
• v. (obsolete) To dilute, temper.
• v. (obsolete) To assuage, quench, allay.

postpone

• v. To delay or put off an event, appointment etc.

remit

• v. To forgive, pardon.
• v. To refrain from exacting or enforcing.
• v. (transitive, obsolete, rare) To give up; omit; cease doing.
• v. To allow (something) to slacken, to relax (one's attention etc.).
• v. (obsolete) To show a lessening or abatement (of) a specified quality.
• v. (obsolete) To diminish, abate.
• v. To refer (something) for deliberation, judgment, etc. (to a particular body or person).
• v. (obsolete) To send back.
• v. (archaic) To give or deliver up; surrender; resign.
• v. To restore or replace.
• v. To postpone.
• v. To transmit or send, as money in payment.
• n. (chiefly Britain) terms of reference; set of responsibilities; scope.

retire

• v. (intransitive) To stop working on a permanent basis, usually because of old age or illness.
• v. (transitive, sometimes reflexive) To withdraw; to take away.
• v. (transitive) To cease use or production of something.
• v. (transitive) To withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to take up and pay.
• v. (transitive) To cause to retire; specifically, to designate as no longer qualified for active service;…
• v. (transitive, cricket, of a batsman) To voluntarily stop batting before being dismissed so that the next…
• v. (transitive, baseball, of a fielder) To make a play which results in a runner or the batter being out,…
• v. (intransitive) To go back or return; to draw back or away; to keep aloof; to withdraw or retreat, as from…
• v. (intransitive) To retreat from action or danger; to withdraw for safety or pleasure.
• v. (intransitive) To recede; to fall or bend back.
• v. (intransitive) To go to bed.
• n. (rare) The act of retiring, or the state of being retired.
• n. a place to which one retires.
• n. (dated) A call sounded on a bugle, announcing to skirmishers that they are to retire, or fall back.
• v. (transitive) To fit (a vehicle) with new tires.

shelve

• v. (transitive) to place on a shelf.
• v. (transitive) to set aside, quit, or halt.
• v. To furnish with shelves.
• v. (slang) To take (drugs) by anal insertion.
• v. (Wales, slang) To have sex with.
• n. A rocky ledge or shelf.

table

• n. Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.
• n. A two-dimensional presentation of data.
• n. (music) The top of a stringed instrument, particularly a member of the violin family: the side of the…
• n. (backgammon) One half of a backgammon board, which is divided into the inner and outer table.
• v. To put on a table.
• v. (Britain, Canada, New Zealand) To propose for discussion (from to put on the table).
• v. (US) To hold back to a later time; to postpone.
• v. To tabulate; to put into a table.
• v. To delineate, as on a table; to represent, as in a picture.
• v. To supply with food; to feed.
• v. (carpentry) To insert, as one piece of timber into another, by alternate scores or projections from the…
• v. To enter upon the docket.
• v. (nautical) To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the…

withdraw

• v. (transitive) To pull (something) back, aside, or away.
• v. (transitive) To take back (a comment, etc).
• v. (transitive) To remove, to stop providing (one's support, etc).
• v. (transitive) To extract (money from an account).
• v. (intransitive) To retreat.
• v. (intransitive) To be in withdrawal from an addictive drug etc.