All hang fire synonyms

verb hang fire

• crab — A crab is a sea creature with a flat round body covered by a shell, and five pairs of legs with large claws on the front pair. Crabs usually move sideways.
• balk — If you balk at something, you definitely do not want to do it or to let it happen.
• puzzle — a toy, problem, or other contrivance designed to amuse by presenting difficulties to be solved by ingenuity or patient effort.
• snooker — a variety of pool played with 15 red balls and 6 balls of colors other than red, in which a player must shoot one of the red balls, each with a point value of 1, into a pocket before shooting at one of the other balls, with point values of from 2 to 7.
• debar — If you are debarred from doing something, you are prevented from doing it by a law or regulation.
• omit — to leave out; fail to include or mention: to omit a name from a list.
• hang — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
• check — Check is also a noun.
• can — You use can when you are mentioning a quality or fact about something which people may make use of if they want to.
• inactivate — to make inactive: The bomb was inactivated.
• hinder — to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
• retard — to make slow; delay the development or progress of (an action, process, etc.); hinder or impede.
• slow — moving or proceeding with little or less than usual speed or velocity: a slow train.
• lengthen — to make longer; make greater in length.
• remit — to transmit or send (money, a check, etc.) to a person or place, usually in payment.
• detain — When people such as the police detain someone, they keep them in a place under their control.
• procrastinate — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
• impede — to retard in movement or progress by means of obstacles or hindrances; obstruct; hinder.
• protract — to draw out or lengthen, especially in time; extend the duration of; prolong.
• table — an article of furniture consisting of a flat, slablike top supported on one or more legs or other supports: a kitchen table; an operating table; a pool table.
• obstruct — to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
• stay — (of a ship) to change to the other tack.
• block — A block of flats or offices is a large building containing them.
• prorogue — to discontinue a session of (the British Parliament or a similar body).
• intermit — to discontinue temporarily; suspend.
• pigeonhole — one of a series of small, open compartments, as in a desk, cabinet, or the like, used for filing or sorting papers, letters, etc.
• poke — to prod or push, especially with something narrow or pointed, as a finger, elbow, stick, etc.: to poke someone in the ribs.
• shilly-shally — to show indecision or hesitation; be irresolute; vacillate.
• let slide — to move along in continuous contact with a smooth or slippery surface: to slide down a snow-covered hill.
• play for time — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
• drag one's feet — to draw with force, effort, or difficulty; pull heavily or slowly along; haul; trail: They dragged the carpet out of the house.
• cut off — If you cut something off, you remove it with a knife or a similar tool.
• dead-end — terminating in a dead end: a dead-end street.
• hang up — the way in which a thing hangs.
• throw a monkey wrench into — to disrupt the orderly functioning or realization of
• break up — When something breaks up or when you break it up, it separates or is divided into several smaller parts.
• count out — If you count out a sum of money, you count the notes or coins as you put them in a pile one by one.
• cut short — to stop abruptly before the end
• lay off — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
• stave off — one of the thin, narrow, shaped pieces of wood that form the sides of a cask, tub, or similar vessel.
• pink-slip — to dismiss from a job: He will be pink-slipped next month.
• lay aside — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
• put an end to — the last part or extremity, lengthwise, of anything that is longer than it is wide or broad: the end of a street; the end of a rope.
• hold back — to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
• hover — to hang fluttering or suspended in the air: The helicopter hovered over the building.
• stick — a thrust with a pointed instrument; stab.
• straggle — to stray from the road, course, or line of march.
• trail — to drag or let drag along the ground or other surface; draw or drag along behind.
• drop back — a lowering, as of prices or standards, especially to a previous level: Auto manufacturers requested a dropback in emissions standards.