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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
protract/prəˈtrakt/

▶verb prolong; draw out.

– origin C16: from L. protract-, protrahere ‘prolong’, from pro- ‘out’ + trahere ‘to draw’.

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