abide, crawl, doodle, fall behind, hang about, hold your horses, linger on, pause, run on, stay up, trail
Definitionv. remain present although waning or gradually dying
Last update: December 14, 2016
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You will linger out your life if you take drugs. [verb]
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Russians like to linger over a cup of coffee. [verb]
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He lingered there for a while. [verb]
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In spite of having gone weak he is lingering on. [verb]
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Unconsciously, this is what we are doing each time we go into a garden and linger lovingly over a particular flower or plant. [verb]
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I linger by the fire, loath to go to bed. [verb]
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Four or five of the latter only lingered about the door of the prison of Uncas, wary but close observers of the manner of their captive. [verb]
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--Julius Caesar The impatience of the savages who lingered about the prison of Uncas, as has been seen, had overcome their dread of the conjurer's breath. [verb]
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The women and children, who lingered around the entrance, took up the words in an echo, which was succeeded by another shrill and plaintive howl. [verb]
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There yet lingered sufficient light in the heavens to exhibit those bright openings among the tree-tops, where different paths left the clearing to enter the depths of the wilderness. [verb]
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David, observing that his companion lingered, pursued the direction of his gaze, and in some measure recalled the recollection of Heyward, by speaking. [verb]
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Montcalm lingered long and melancholy on the strand where he had been left by his companion, brooding deeply on the temper which his ungovernable ally had just discovered. [verb]
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