| word | protracted |
|---|---|
| definition | Drawn out, continued, or extended. |
| eg_sentence | No one was looking forward to a protracted struggle for custody of the baby. |
| explanation | With its prefix pro-, “forward,” protracted usually applies to something drawn out forward in time. A protracted strike may cripple a company; a protracted rainy spell may rot the roots of vegetables; and a protracted lawsuit occasionally outlives the parties involved. Before the invention of the polio vaccines, polio's many victims had no choice but to suffer a protracted illness and its aftereffects |
| IPA | proʊˈtræktɪd |
Tags: mwvb::unit:2, mwvb::unit:2:word, mwvb::word, mwvb::word-cloze, mwvb::word-reverse, obsidian_to_anki
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