different between obstruct vs procrastinate

English

Etymology

From Latin past participle stem obstruct- (“blocked up”), from verb obstruere, from ob (“against”) + struere (“pile up, build”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?st??kt/
• Rhymes: -?kt

Verb

obstruct (third-person singular simple present obstructs, present participle obstructing, simple past and past participle obstructed)

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1. To block or fill (a passage) with obstacles or an obstacle. See synonyms at block.
3. To impede, retard, or interfere with; hinder.

4. To get in the way of so as to hide from sight.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:hinder

Derived terms

• deobstruct
• obstructed
• obstructedly
• unobstructed
• unobstructedly

Related terms

Translations

English

Etymology

Either back-formation from procrastination, or from Latin pr?crastin?tum, past participle of pr?crastin? (“defer, put off till tomorrow”), from pr? (“in favor of”) + cr?stinus (“of or belonging to tomorrow”), from cr?s (“tomorrow”)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p????k?æst?ne?t/
• (US) enPR: pr?-kr?s't?-n?t', IPA^(key): /p?o??k?æst?ne?t/, /p???k?æst?ne?t/

Verb

procrastinate (third-person singular simple present procrastinates, present participle procrastinating, simple past and past participle procrastinated)

1. (intransitive) To delay taking action; to wait until later.

   He procrastinated until the last minute and had to stay up all night to finish.

2. (transitive) To put off; to delay (something).

Synonyms

• procrastine (obsolete)
• (intransitive): delay, penelopize, stall
• (transitive): delay, postpone, put off, stall

Antonyms

• precrastinate

Derived terms

• procrastination
• procrastinator

Translations

See also

• carpe diem cras
• perendinate
• tomorrow never comes

Further reading

• procrastinate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• procrastinate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• procrastinate at OneLook Dictionary Search

Italian

Verb

procrastinate

1. second-person plural present indicative of procrastinare
2. second-person plural imperative of procrastinare
3. feminine plural of procrastinato

Latin

Verb

pr?cr?stin?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of pr?cr?stin?