Usually means: Extend or draw out duration.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word protract:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. protract: Merriam-Webster
  2. protract: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. protract: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. protract: Collins English Dictionary
  5. protract: Vocabulary.com
  6. protract: Wordnik
  7. protract: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. protract: Wiktionary
  9. protract: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. protract: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. protract: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. protract: Dictionary.com
  13. protract: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Protract: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. protract: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. protract: Rhymezone
  17. protract: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. protract: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. protract: FreeDictionary.org
  20. protract: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. protract: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. protract: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. protract: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. protract: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. protract: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. protract: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. protract: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (protract)

verb:  To draw out; to extend, especially in duration.
verb:  To use a protractor.
verb:  (surveying) To draw to a scale; to lay down the lines and angles of, with scale and protractor; to plot.
verb:  To put off to a distant time; to delay; to defer.
verb:  To extend; to protrude.

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