All filibustering synonyms
noun filibustering
- obstructionism β a person who deliberately delays or prevents progress.
adjective filibustering
- blocking β the interruption of anode current in a valve because of the application of a high negative voltage to the grid
- obstructionist β a person who deliberately delays or prevents progress.
verb filibustering
- adjourn β If a meeting or trial is adjourned or if it adjourns, it is stopped for a short time.
- bar β A bar is a place where you can buy and drink alcoholic drinks.
- block β A block of flats or offices is a large building containing them.
- defer β If you defer an event or action, you arrange for it to happen at a later date, rather than immediately or at the previously planned time.
- detain β When people such as the police detain someone, they keep them in a place under their control.
- hamper β to hold back; hinder; impede: A steady rain hampered the progress of the work.
- hold β to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
- impede β to retard in movement or progress by means of obstacles or hindrances; obstruct; hinder.
- keep β to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
- obstruct β to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
- postpone β to put off to a later time; defer: He has postponed his departure until tomorrow.
- prevent β to keep from occurring; avert; hinder: He intervened to prevent bloodshed.
- prolong β to lengthen out in time; extend the duration of; cause to continue longer: to prolong one's stay abroad.
- put off β to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
- restrict β to confine or keep within limits, as of space, action, choice, intensity, or quantity.
- shelve β to place (something) on a shelf or shelves.
- stall β a pretext, as a ruse, trick, or the like, used to delay or deceive.
- stay β (of a ship) to change to the other tack.
- suspend β to hang by attachment to something above: to suspend a chandelier from the ceiling.
- withhold β to hold back; restrain or check.
- arrest β If the police arrest you, they take charge of you and take you to a police station, because they believe you may have committed a crime.
- cheque β A cheque is a printed form on which you write an amount of money and who it is to be paid to. Your bank then pays the money to that person from your account.
- check β Check is also a noun.
- choke β When you choke or when something chokes you, you cannot breathe properly or get enough air into your lungs.
- clog β When something clogs a hole or place, it blocks it so that nothing can pass through.
- confine β To confine something to a particular place or group means to prevent it from spreading beyond that place or group.
- curb β If you curb something, you control it and keep it within limits.
- dawdle β If you dawdle, you spend more time than is necessary going somewhere.
- deter β To deter someone from doing something means to make them not want to do it or continue doing it.
- dilly-dally β to loiter or vacillate
- discourage β to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- drag β drag and drop
- encumber β Restrict or burden (someone or something) in such a way that free action or movement is difficult.
- filibuster β U.S. Politics. the use of irregular or obstructive tactics by a member of a legislative assembly to prevent the adoption of a measure generally favored or to force a decision against the will of the majority. an exceptionally long speech, as one lasting for a day or days, or a series of such speeches to accomplish this purpose. a member of a legislature who makes such a speech.
- inhibit β to restrain, hinder, arrest, or check (an action, impulse, etc.).
- interfere β to come into opposition, as one thing with another, especially with the effect of hampering action or procedure (often followed by with): Constant distractions interfere with work.
- intermit β to discontinue temporarily; suspend.
- lag β netlag
- linger β to remain or stay on in a place longer than is usual or expected, as if from reluctance to leave: We lingered awhile after the party.
- loiter β to linger aimlessly or as if aimless in or about a place: to loiter around the bus terminal.
- procrastinate β to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
- prorogue β to discontinue a session of (the British Parliament or a similar body).
- protract β to draw out or lengthen, especially in time; extend the duration of; prolong.
- remand β to send back, remit, or consign again.
- repress β to keep under control, check, or suppress (desires, feelings, actions, tears, etc.).
- retard β to make slow; delay the development or progress of (an action, process, etc.); hinder or impede.
- slacken β If something slackens or if you slacken it, it becomes slower, less active, or less intense.