Synonyms of defer

1 Syllable

block, slow, stall, stay

2 Syllables

adjourn, tabled, suspend, protract, complying, comply, waived, prolong, delay, caved, obstruct, complies, knuckling, waive, waiving, submit, retard, adjourns, succumb, fawned, caving, table, lengthen, extend, knuckled, hinder, shelve, remit, knuckle, detain, complied

3 Syllables

respiting, impede, retarding, surcease, overpast, postponing, succumbing, proroguing, intermit, prorogue, postpone, respited, by-passed, submitting, overleap, undergo, submitted, adjourned, underwent, protracting, interrupt, adjourning, abided, undergoing, undergoes, succumbed, surceased

4 Syllables

hesitate, interrupting, overpassing, hesitated, overpassed, pigeonholed

5 Syllables

procrastinated, procrastinating, capitulating, procrastinate, capitulated, capitulate