verb
ADVERB
▪ significantly
▪ indefinitely
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Might it be possible to ~ life indefinitely?
▪ artificially
▪ deliberately
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Doctors commented that some patients deliberately ~ their treatment.
▪ unnecessarily
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We do not want to ~ the meeting unnecessarily.
Prolong is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ agony , ↑ erection , ↑ life , ↑ misery , ↑ pain , ↑ period , ↑ recession , ↑ stay , ↑ suffering , ↑ survival