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Prorogate vs Prolong - What's the difference?

prorogate | prolong |

As verbs the difference between prorogate and prolong

is that prorogate is to prorogue while prolong is (label) to extend in space or length.

prorogate

English

Verb

(prorogat)
  • To prorogue.
    • (Webster 1913) ----

    prolong

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (label) To extend in space or length.
  • (label) To lengthen in time; to extend the duration of; to draw out; to continue.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
    • , chapter=5, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged . In the road Mr. Love and the driver favoured the company with a brief chanty running. “Got it?—No, I ain't, 'old on,—Got it? Got it?—No, 'old on sir.”}}
  • (label) To lengthen temporally; to put off to a distant time; to postpone.

    • Derived terms

    * prolongable * prolongation * prolonger * prolongment

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