protract

To draw out; to extend, especially in duration.

Doubtless he shrives this woman to her smock; Else ne'er could he so long protract his speech.

1755, Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language, London: J. and P. Knapton et al., Volume 1, Preface, I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please, have sunk into the grave […]

To use a protractor.

To draw to a scale; to lay down the lines and angles of, with scale and protractor; to plot.

This is a synopsis of our marches, which, protracted on Burckhardt’s map, gives an error of ten miles.

To put off to a distant time; to delay; to defer.

to protract a decision or duty

[…] Let us bury him, And not protract with admiration what Is now due debt. To the grave!

To extend; to protrude.

A cat can protract and retract its claws.