Delay - Crossword Clue

Crossword Clue Last Updated: 16/01/2025

Below are possible answers for the crossword clue Delay.

6 letter answer(s) to delay

DETAIN
  1. cause to be slowed down or delayed; "Traffic was delayed by the bad weather"; "she delayed the work that she didn't want to perform"
  2. deprive of freedom; take into confinement
  3. stop or halt; "Please stay the bloodshed!"
HOLDUP
  1. robbery at gunpoint
  2. the act of delaying; inactivity resulting in something being put off until a later time
PUTOFF
  1. a pretext for delay or inaction
RETARD
  1. a person of subnormal intelligence
  2. be delayed
  3. cause to move more slowly or operate at a slower rate; "This drug will retard your heart rate"
  4. lose velocity; move more slowly; "The car decelerated"
  5. slow the growth or development of;

3 letter answer(s) to delay

LAG
  1. cover with lagging to prevent heat loss; "lag pipes"
  2. hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.
  3. lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"
  4. one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket
  5. the act of slowing down or falling behind
  6. the time between one event, process, or period and another; "meanwhile the socialists are running the government"
  7. throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins

13 letter answer(s) to delay

PROCRASTINATE
  1. postpone doing what one should be doing; "He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days"
  2. postpone or delay needlessly; "He procrastinated the matter until it was almost too late"

5 letter answer(s) to delay

STALL
  1. a booth where articles are displayed for sale
  2. a compartment in a stable where a single animal is confined and fed
  3. a malfunction in the flight of an aircraft in which there is a sudden loss of lift that results in a downward plunge; "the plane went into a stall and I couldn't control it"
  4. a tactic used to mislead or delay
  5. cause an airplane to go into a stall
  6. cause an engine to stop; "The inexperienced driver kept stalling the car"
  7. come to a stop; "The car stalled in the driveway"
  8. deliberately delay an event or action; "she doesn't want to write the report, so she is stalling"
  9. experience a stall in flight, of airplanes
  10. postpone doing what one should be doing; "He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days"
  11. put into, or keep in, a stall; "Stall the horse"
  12. seating in the forward part of the main level of a theater
  13. small area set off by walls for special u

7 letter answer(s) to delay

TIMELAG

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