Synonyms for prolonging
pro·long·ing

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1. List of paraphrases for "prolonging":

   extending, extend, lengthening

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1. Simon Newell:

   For some, continuing life-sustaining treatment is simply prolonging suffering in the face of the inevitable, for (some) babies, no treatment is going to cure them and their quality of life is non-existent.

2. T. S. Eliot, Quoted in the May, 24 edition of "The Montreal Gazette":

   An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

3. Tom Wolf:

   Every time we talk about opening something up, we're going to be prolonging this phase, if it's not in the best interests of keeping people safe, I'm not going to go along with it.

4. State John Kerry on Sunday:

   The world needs to push in one direction: Stopping the oppression and suffering of the Syrian people and ending, not prolonging, this war.

5. Phil Klotzbach:

   Climatologically, what ends your hurricane season is too much wind shear, so La Niña tends to prolong the hurricane season since it tends to reduce shear, of course, last year is an example of La Niña prolonging the season... on steroids !