linger
31linger — [ˈlɪŋgə] verb [I] 1) to stay somewhere for a long time, or to do something for a long time I like to linger over breakfast and read the newspapers.[/ex] 2) to continue for a long time Doubts still linger about his honesty.[/ex] • linger on …
32linger — verb ADVERB ▪ long ▪ still ▪ forever ▪ It will linger forever in the minds of many people. ▪ on ▪ …
33linger — Synonyms and related words: abide, amble, await, bide, bide the issue, carry on, cease not, continue, crawl, creep, dally, dawdle, delay, diddle, dillydally, dither, doodle, drag, drag along, drag on, drift, dwell on, elaborate, endure, fall… …
34linger — [13] Etymologically, to linger is to remain ‘longer’ than one should. Like its relatives, German längen and Dutch lengen, it goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *langgjan ‘lengthen’. In Old Norse this became lengja, which was borrowed into… …
35linger — verb be slow or reluctant to leave. ↘(linger over) spend a long time over. ↘(usu. linger on) be slow to disappear or die. Derivatives lingerer noun lingering adjective lingeringly adverb Origin ME: frequentative of obs. leng prolong , of Gmc… …
36linger — [13] Etymologically, to linger is to remain ‘longer’ than one should. Like its relatives, German längen and Dutch lengen, it goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *langgjan ‘lengthen’. In Old Norse this became lengja, which was borrowed into… …
37linger — verb To stay or remain. I like to linger in my garden after I have finished working there …
38linger on — phr verb Linger on is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑camera, ↑eye …
39linger on — be slow to disappear or die. → linger …
40linger — verb 1) the crowd lingered for a long time Syn: wait around, stay, remain, wait, stay put; loiter, dawdle, dally, take one s time; informal stick around, hang around, hang on; archaic tarry Ant: leave 2) …
