prolonging
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English
[edit]Verb
[edit]prolonging
- present participle and gerund of prolong
Noun
[edit]prolonging (plural prolongings)
- prolongation
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
- the gradual prolongings of the whale's visible jets