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Linger

//ˈlɪŋɡɚ// name, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Verb
  1. 1
    To stay or remain in a place or situation, especially as if unwilling to depart or not easily able to do so. intransitive

    "Still more foole I ſhall appeare / By the time I linger here"

  2. 2
    leave slowly and hesitantly wordnet
  3. 3
    To remain alive or existent although still proceeding toward death or extinction; to die gradually. intransitive

    "He lingered through the day, and died that evening as the sun went down."

  4. 4
    take one's time; proceed slowly wordnet
  5. 5
    To consider or contemplate for a period of time; to engage in analytic thinking or discussion. idiomatic, intransitive, often

    "Trump doesn't linger on the poll."

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  1. 6
    be about a place without any apparent purpose wordnet
  2. 7
    to hang about in a place beyond the proper or usual time wordnet
  3. 8
    remain present although waning or gradually dying wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English lengeren, frequentative of lengen (“to stay, dwell, tarry”), from Old English lenġan (“to lengthen, delay, extend”), from Proto-West Germanic *langijan, from Proto-Germanic *langijaną (compare West Frisian lingje (“to linger”), Dutch lengen, German längen, Icelandic lengja (“to lengthen”)), related to the root of English long. Equivalent to linge or long + -er (frequentative verb suffix).

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