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5 letters · 9 points in Scrabble
Meaning
verb hold back to a later time
verb yield to another's wish or opinion
originOriginally a variant of (and hence a doublet of) differ; from Middle English differren (“to postpone”), from Old French differer, from Latin differō. Doublet of differ and dilate. See also infer, collate and confer, delate and defer, relate and refer as well as prelate and prefer among others.
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