# penelopize

> English word · Verb

## Definitions
1. To create a delay by undoing what has previously been done, sometimes possibly with the intention of redoing it and repeating this cycle.

## Etymology
From Penelope + -ize, from the account in Homer's Odyssey of Penelope, who stalled her many suitors while she wove a shroud which she unraveled nightly to prolong the process.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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