Synonyms:
postpone, prorogue, hold_over, put_over, table, shelve, set_back, defer, remit, put_off
Meaning: hold back to a later time; "let's postpone the exam"
Usage examples
Or how could she postpone the journey without exciting suspicion?
If the sun was clouded for six days we must postpone our visit till next year.
It would be better, he had suggested, to postpone the work till Julia could be coaxed down to Clavering in the Autumn.
You will then, pardon me, Alice, should I diminish your enjoyments, by requesting this gentleman to postpone his chant until a safer opportunity."
"I have no objection," she said, "to your going to C----, and I thank you for the generosity of your offer, but I beg you will postpone your journey.
The other is like a man who has planned an outing for the next day which continuing rain will frustrate. He cannot, to be sure, by his present reactions affect to-morrow's weather, but he may take some steps which will influence future happenings, if only to postpone the proposed picnic.