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linger English

Meaning linger meaning

What does linger mean?

linger

— verb remain present although waning or gradually dying Her perfume lingered on — verb (= tarry) leave slowly and hesitantly — verb (= loiter, hang around) be about The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square Who is this man that is hanging around the department? — verb take one's time; proceed slowly — verb move to and fro The shy student lingered in the corner

Synonyms linger synonyms

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linger English » English

tarry delay loiter dawdle stay dally remain procrastinate loaf hang around hesitate be slow stop potter about abide waste time wait a little wait temporize take a long time saunter persist pass time mill around mill about mess about lurk lounge lollygag loiter about lallygag lag idle hover hang out footle dwell on dilly-dally bide be tardy wandering wander about wander walk to and fro turn aside trail swing survive stroll about stray

Topics linger topics

What do people use linger to talk about?
Physical actions Move Not moving

Stay, remain

Conjugation linger conjugation

How do you conjugate linger?

linger · verb

Examples linger examples

How do I use linger in a sentence?

Movie subtitles

But we did not linger for we could find no anchorage.
Linger your patience on, for if we may, we'll not offend one stomach with our play.
Linger your patience on and we'll digest the abuse of distance, force a play.
He's a dead linger to! the old man.
But why linger on details when the D.A. has not presented one bit of conclusive evidence that the car ever was tampered with.
Make the most of it. I do not wish to linger on this Cape Verde ground.
If he is down there, I don't think he'll have time to linger.
You must never linger to discuss a case.
Victory is a fragile thing and history does not linger long in our century.
In it can be found not only thermostatically controlled mixer-taps, but also a dressing table any woman would be happy to linger.
Maybe a thumb will linger, maybe a touch of one finger on your hands and mine.
Traces may linger.
Goodbye. Well, I wouldn't linger here if I were you.
Our host appears to wish us to linger, yet he is apprehensive.
Don't linger over it.
Let's not linger over it, Elliot.
But why linger on details when the district attorney has not presented one bit of conclusive evidence that the car ever was tampered with.
Until she gives you an answer, you must linger in the court.
While you linger in the court, it festers.
I do not wish to linger on this Cape Verde ground.
One might well believe, philosophically, that some ancient culture, engulfed by a great and tremendous upheaval of nature might linger on in some pocket of earth.
Now, let's not linger, Vanessa.
The Cyclops will have to linger at the Pole to recharge its power banks.
But I think I'll linger a while and investigate the possibilities of Cawndilla.
Miss Marple, if we linger here much longer I feel certain we shall be apprehended.
I was going to say, I sincerely hope that you don't mind if I don't linger.
I'll not linger in this den of iniquity one moment longer.
Father's sickness will linger for awhile.
Don't linger.
Linger your patience on; and we'll digest the abuse of distance.
Shall we tell him or let him linger?
I would not have thee linger in thy pain.
Okay, enough of this linger.
Don't linger?
Garvey! Don't linger!
You asked me not to linger. So here I am.

News and current affairs

The failure of all but a few professional economists to forecast the episode - the aftereffects of which still linger - has led many to question whether the economics profession contributes anything significant to society.
Goodwill now prevails, but some of the old suspicions linger - and some new ones have emerged.
Too many question marks about their national unity are said to exist, too many internal conflicts linger, and their records on political and judicial reforms are supposedly dubious.
In fact, ODA disbursements have not been stable, reliable, or reflective of need, and doubts about their effectiveness linger.
Yasir Arafat may be dead, but his Machiavellian strategies linger.
Of course, some of the old suspicions about Russian motives linger in the West, most particularly over Iraq (where Lukoil, Russia's biggest oil company, recently signed a new deal to develop Iraqi oil fields).
Indeed, the damage sustained in the process will linger.
Child soldiers still linger in paramilitary groups, and there are compromising video recordings of leading Colombian politicians and drug lords.
The events in East Timor in 1999 remain fresh in memory, and difficulties linger.
Political impediments often enable lax arrangements to linger even after they are recognized as inefficient.
As long as NATO remains reluctant to enter into a dialogue with the SCO, such a cautious attitude looks set to linger, and may even intensify.
Seen from the United States, Europe may no longer be a problem, but it is not considered a part of any solution to the world's problems, either - with the possible exception of those that concern Europe directly (and, even then, doubts linger).
Geithner also established a tangled web of connections between the New York Fed and JPMorgan Chase, some of which linger to this day.
And, with the face value of the debt unchanged, the psychological drag on expectations and investment might linger.
Clouds of uncertainty linger, however, and there is much unfinished business.
PARIS - Will the year 2009 and the beginning of Barack Obama's presidency mark the beginning of a new era in transatlantic relations, or will the old divisions linger, nurtured by the depth and gravity of the economic crisis?

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