{
    "term": "procrastinate",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "procrastinate",
            "heSheIt": "procrastinates"
        },
        "pastSimple": "procrastinated",
        "pastParticiple": "procrastinated",
        "ingForm": "procrastinating"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to delay doing something that you should do, usually because you do not want to do it",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "People were dying of starvation while governments procrastinated."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/prəˈkræstɪneɪt/",
                "audio": "pr/procrastinate/procrastinate__gb_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/prəˈkræstɪneɪts/",
                "audio": "pr/procrastinate/procrastinates__gb_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/prəˈkræstɪneɪtɪd/",
                "audio": "pr/procrastinate/procrastinated__gb_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/prəˈkræstɪneɪtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "pr/procrastinate/procrastinating__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/prəˈkræstɪneɪt/",
                "audio": "pr/procrastinate/procrastinate__us_3.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/prəˈkræstɪneɪts/",
                "audio": "pr/procrastinate/procrastinates__us_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/prəˈkræstɪneɪtɪd/",
                "audio": "pr/procrastinate/procrastinated__us_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/prəˈkræstɪneɪtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "pr/procrastinate/procrastinating__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 16th cent.: from Latin procrastinat- ‘deferred till the morning’, from the verb procrastinare, from pro- ‘forward’ + crastinus ‘belonging to tomorrow’ (from cras ‘tomorrow’)."
}