Verb:

अब-तब करना, देर करना, मलतवी करना, टाल देना, रखना, विलंब करना, रख देना, अलग रखना, टालना,

defer's Usage Examples:

The army corps was about to arrive, practically as a whole unit, in South Africa; but it was evident that the exigencies of the situation, and the widely divided areas of invasion, would at least defer the execution of the plan which had been formed for an invasion of the Orange Free State from Cape Colony.

Both provinces granted townships within the disputed territory; Massachusetts arrested men there who refused to pay taxes to its officers, and sought to defer the settlement of the dispute.

Within the last few years the object desired has been practically attained in a few states by provisions they have introduced for taking a popular vote as to the person whom the legislature ought to elect, the latter being expected to defer to the popular will.

Apart from the modern studies by Lair, FunckBrentano, Lang and Barnes, referred to above, there is valuable historical matter in the work of Roux-Fazaillac, Recherches historiques sur l'homme au masque defer (1801); see also Marius Topin, L'Homme au masque de fer (Paris, 1870), and Loiseleur, Trois Enigmes historiques (1882).

It is best to defer the question of the origin of Christian baptism until the history of the rite in the centuries which followed has been sketched, for we know more clearly what baptism became after the year Ioo than what it was before.

The resistance of single cities, and the temporary union of the Arcadians during the second Messenian war, did not defer the complete subjugation of the land beyond the 6th century.

Hilden might defer to him in her absence, but Taran knew where the loyalty of most of the men lay.

There was still no improvement in the countess' health, but it was impossible to defer the journey to Moscow any longer.

consented to defer his Crusade until March 1222.

"You must defer to him in my absence as you do me," he reminded her.

Synonyms:

call, call off, postpone, delay, hold over, scratch, put off, prorogue, set back, reschedule, put over, remit, respite, cancel, probate, scrub, hold, reprieve, suspend, shelve, table,

Antonyms:

exclude, surrender, defy, let go of, discontinue,