Definition of "protracts" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of protract. (verb)

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• "After the first 11 interviews with my brother Police Officer and Detective Howard Wooldridge of Lansing, Michigan (retired) concerning the “War on Drugs”, more and more Americans understand the underpinnings of how the U.S. government protracts a national taxpayer fraud."
• "Then when ordered by the judge to produce the documents in question, it protracts the process as much as possible."
• "Today, in any event, there are many signs that the party and Obama are largely moving on, while all this sound-and-fury-signifying-nothing protracts itself."