Lingering
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Lingering \Lin"ger*ing\, a.
1. Delaying.
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2. Drawn out in time; remaining long; protracted; as, a
lingering disease.
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To die is the fate of man; but to die with lingering
anguish is generally his folly. --Rambler.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Linger \Lin"ger\ (l[i^][ng]"g[~e]r), v. i. [imp. & p. p.
{Lingered} (l[i^][ng]"g[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Lingering}.]
[OE. lengen to tarry, AS. lengan to prolong, put off, fr.
lang long. [root]125. See {Long}, a.]
To delay; to loiter; to remain or wait long; to be slow or
reluctant in parting or moving; to be slow in deciding; to be
in suspense; to hesitate.
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Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind. --Gray.
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Perhaps thou linger'st, in deep thoughts detained.
--Milton.
Syn: To loiter; lag; saunter; delay; tarry; stop; hesitate.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
84 Moby Thesaurus words for "lingering":
Micawberish, backward, booming, continuation, dalliance, dallying,
dawdling, delaying, dilatoriness, dilatory, dillydallying,
dolce far niente, dragging, drawn-out, easygoing, echoic, echoing,
extended, extension, foot-dragging, goofing off, gradual, growling,
idling, interminable, lackadaisical, lag, laggard, lagging,
languishing, lasting, lax, lazing, lazy, lengthened, lengthening,
loafing, loitering, lolling, lollygagging, long, long-continuing,
long-drawn, long-drawn-out, long-pending, long-winded, lounging,
marathon, mopery, overlong, persistent, procrastinating,
procrastination, procrastinative, procrastinatory, prolongation,
prolonged, protracted, protraction, reboant, rebounding, reechoing,
remaining, remiss, repercussive, resounding, reverberant,
reverberating, reverberatory, rumbling, shilly-shallying,
shuffling, slack, slow, sluggish, sounding, spun-out,
stretched-out, tarriance, tarrying, thundering, trifling, undamped,
waiting
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