🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

遅らせる

Native Script:日本語

Pronunciation / Transliteration: okuraseru

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Laten/ˈleɪ.tən/
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"出発を遅らせる必要があります。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As verb
  1. 1

    To become late or to cause to become late; to delay or linger.

    "The travelers watched the daylightaten as they crossed the expansive valley."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Middle English, formed as a causative verb from the adjective 'late' combined with the verbal suffix '-en'. Historically used in literary and dialectal contexts to denote the process of becoming late or delaying action.

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