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Linger   /lˈɪŋgər/  /lˈɪŋər/   Listen
Linger

verb
(past & past part. lingered; pres. part. lingering)
1.
Remain present although waning or gradually dying.
2.
Be about.  Synonyms: footle, hang around, lallygag, loaf, loiter, lollygag, lounge, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry.  "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?"
3.
Leave slowly and hesitantly.  Synonym: tarry.
4.
Take one's time; proceed slowly.  Synonym: dawdle.  Antonym: rush.
5.
Move to and fro.  Synonym: hover.



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"Linger" Quotes from Famous Books



... But I did not linger another moment. I could almost believe an angel took me by the hand, and led me. I darted straight across the muddy road, getting my thin slippers wet through at once, ran for a few yards, and then turned sharply round a corner into a street at the end of which I saw the cheery ...
— The Doctor's Dilemma • Hesba Stretton

... I linger past Love's ardent bounds Nor live for aught else but the joy that it craves, That, burden and essence of all that surrounds, Is the song in the wind and the smile ...
— Poems • Alan Seeger

... another room came all the scraps to be "tanked," which meant boiling and pumping off the grease to make soap and lard; below they took out the refuse, and this, too, was a region in which the visitors did not linger. In still other places men were engaged in cutting up the carcasses that had been through the chilling rooms. First there were the "splitters," the most expert workmen in the plant, who earned as high as fifty cents an hour, and ...
— The Jungle • Upton Sinclair

... his voice trembled, "the danger that I can avert no more, if thou linger still in Naples, comes hourly near and near to thee! On the third day from this thy fate must be decided. I accept thy promise. Before the last hour of that day, come what may, I shall see thee again, HERE, at thine ...
— Zanoni • Edward Bulwer Lytton

... place, the animal becomes correspondingly weak, and death takes place in 24 to 36 hours. Cases may die in as short a period as six to eight hours, while in the pectoral form of the disease the animal may linger six or eight days. Cases have been reported which became chronic and in which death did not take place for a month or more. In some of the cases running an acute course, symptoms of toxemia are present; there is a lack of sensation of the skin, staggering gait, trembling, eyes fixed, ...
— Special Report on Diseases of Cattle • U.S. Department of Agriculture


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