Related Words for protracted

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lengthy
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Adjective, Adjective
prolonged
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Adjective, Adjective
extended
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Adjective, Adjective
long
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Adjective, Adjective
interminable
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Adjective
arduous
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Adjective
tortuous
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Adjective
ensuing
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Verb
grueling
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Adjective
agonizing
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Adjective
intense
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Adjective
ongoing
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Adjective
wearisome
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Adjective
acrimonious
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Adjective
gruelling
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Adjective
fraught
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Noun
laborious
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Adjective
tiresome
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Adjective
torrid
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Noun
contentious
x/x
Adjective
internecine
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Adjective
tedious
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Adjective
excruciating
x/xxx
Adjective
tumultuous
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Adjective
painful
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Adjective
unremitting
xx/x
Adjective
torturous
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Adjective
strenuous
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Adjective
fruitless
/x
Adjective
embroiled
x/
Verb
sustained
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Adjective
tiring
/x
Noun
vigorous
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Adjective
ordeal
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Noun
painstaking
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Adjective
frenzied
/x
Adjective
spasmodic
x/x
Adjective
tussle
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Noun
intensive
x/x
Adjective
sanguinary
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Adjective
calamitous
x/xx
Adjective
continual
x/xx
Adjective
desultory
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Adjective
intractable
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Adjective
complicated
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Adjective
agonising
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Adjective
costly
/x
Adjective
disastrous
x/x
Adjective
convoluted
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Adjective
fractious
/x
Adjective
bloody
/x
Adjective
brief
/
Adjective
unending
x/x
Adjective
rapid
/x
Adjective
debilitating
x/xxx
Adjective
subsequent
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Adjective
feverish
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Adjective
convulsive
x/x
Adjective
negotiations
xxx/x
Noun
incessant
x/x
Adjective
troublesome
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Adjective
sordid
/x
Adjective
chronic
/x
Adjective
concerted
x/x
Adjective
exasperated
x/xxx
Adjective
wearying
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Verb
longish
/x
Adjective
continuous
x/xx
Adjective
endured
x/
Verb
extensive
x/x
Adjective
hellish
/x
Adjective
ignominious
xx/xx
Adjective
acute
x/
Adjective
brutal
/x
Adjective
traumatic
x/x
Adjective
delayed
x/
Adjective, Verb
ceaseless
/x
Adjective
mired
/
Verb
escalating
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Noun
repetitive
x/xx
Adjective
perilous
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Adjective
confrontation
xx/x
Noun
turbulent
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Adjective
vicious
/x
Adjective
lugubrious
x/xx
Adjective
affair
x/
Noun
standoff
/x
Noun
abortive
x/x
Adjective
weeklong
/x
Adjective
longtime
/x
Adjective
strung out
//
Phrase, Adjective
inveterate
x/xx
Adjective
distended
x/x
Adjective
aggravated
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Verb
progressive
x/x
Adjective
surgical
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Adjective
elongated
x/xx
Adjective
extreme
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Adjective
profound
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Adjective
long haul
//
Phrase, Adjective, Noun
exaggerated
x/xxx
Adjective
turgid
/x
Adjective
laboured
/x
Verb
inordinate
x/xx
Adjective
dragging
/x
Verb
enormous
x/x
Adjective
insistent
x/x
Adjective
heavy
/x
Adjective
outsized
/x
Adjective
overextended
xxx/x
Adjective
accelerated
x/xxx
Adjective
eternal
x/x
Adjective
oversized
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Adjective
undue
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Adjective
severe
x/
Adjective
repetitious
xx/x
Adjective
overwrought
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Adjective
cloying
/x
Adjective
hard
/
Adjective
abused
x/
Adjective
exacting
x/x
Adjective
swollen
/x
Adjective
fractionated
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Verb
fluorouracil
x/x/x
Noun
wrangle
/x
Noun
sieges
/x
Noun
haggling
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Noun
convalescence
xx/x
Noun
litigation
xx/x
Noun
vomiting
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Noun
stalemate
/x
Noun
lawsuit
/x
Noun
heated
/x
Verb
diarrhoea
xx/x
Noun
detailed
x/
Verb
abstinence
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Noun
struggle
/x
Noun
diarrhea
xx/x
Noun
anaphylaxis
xxx/x
Noun
prohibited
x/xx
Verb
agonies
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Noun
drought
/
Noun
courtship
/x
Noun
dispute
x/
Noun
deliberations
xxx/x
Noun
squabble
/x
Noun
dying
/x
Noun
scapula
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Noun
spree
/
Noun
absences
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Noun
stay
/
Noun
sojourn
/x
Noun
hostilities
x/xx
Noun
duel
/x
Noun
abiding
x/x
Adjective, Noun
ancient
/x
Adjective, Noun
continued
x/x
Adjective, Noun
cumbersome
/xx
Adjective
dace
/
Noun
durable
/xx
Adjective, Noun
endless
/x
Adjective
fought
/
Noun
futile
/x
Adjective
inconclusive
xx/x
Adjective
lang
/
Noun, Adjective
lasting
/x
Adjective, Noun
length
/
Noun, Verb
lengthened
/x
Adjective
lingering
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Noun
old
/
Adjective, Noun
perennial
x/xx
Adjective, Noun
permanent
/xx
Adjective, Noun, Verb
persistence
x/x
Noun
persistent
x/x
Adjective
pointless
/x
Adjective
publicized
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Adjective
recurrent
x/x
Adjective
slow
/
Adjective, Verb, Noun, Adverb
sluggish
/x
Adjective
stubborn
/x
Adjective, Noun
sustainable
x/xx
Adjective, Noun
tenacious
x/x
Adjective
yearlong
//
Adjective, Adverb
sorta
/x
Adverb
no
/
Noun, Adverb, Adjective
anymore
xx/
Adverb
bulletproof
/xx
Adjective, Verb
milestone
/x
Noun, Verb
literally
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Adverb
tell
/
Verb, Noun
breakeven
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Verb, Noun, Adjective
save
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Verb, Noun