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myöhäistää — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • delay noun A period of waiting before something happens; a hold-up.
  • postpone verb To move an event or activity to a later time; to delay it.
  • procrastinate verb To keep putting off something you should be doing, usually because it feels difficult or unpleasant, and to do something easier instead.

Senses

myöhäistää is used for these senses in English:

  • delay To put off until a later time; to defer.
  • postpone To delay or put off an event, appointment, etc.
  • procrastinate (transitive) To put off; to delay (something).

delay — full definition

  1. noun A period of waiting before something happens; a hold-up.
  2. verb To put something off until later, or to make it happen later than planned.
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