Delay and Getting to

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Delay verb - To move or act slowly.

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Getting to is an antonym for delay.

Nearby Words: delayed, delaying, delayer

Definitions of Delay not found.

Delay is an antonym for getting to in encourage topic.

All the rest of the fleet is destroyed, with the Enterprise only surviving due to a brief delay in getting to the battlefield.

Source: Film / Star Trek
Superman points out that saving a cat from a tree (that only got up there due to a careless owner) might delay him getting to life-threatening disaster and admonishes the owner for not being more responsible.

Source: Western Animation / Superman: Doomsday
The goal is to delay it from getting to 100 Anima for as long as possible by consolidating the Anima in the largest golems (achieved by killing the smallest golems near them), resulting in the boss taking the longest time to get to full power.

Source: Puzzle Boss

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