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lin⋅ger

  [ling-ger]
Use linger in a Sentence
–verb (used without object)
1. to remain or stay on in a place longer than is usual or expected, as if from reluctance to leave: We lingered awhile after the party.
2. to remain alive; continue or persist, although gradually dying, ceasing, disappearing, etc.: She lingered a few months after the heart attack. Such practices still linger among the older natives.
3. to dwell in contemplation, thought, or enjoyment: to linger over the beauty of a painting.
4. to be tardy in action; delay; dawdle: to linger in discharging one's duties.
5. to walk slowly; saunter along.
–verb (used with object)
6. to pass (time, life, etc.) in a leisurely or a tedious manner (usually fol. by away or out): We lingered away the whole summer at the beach.
7. Archaic. to draw out or protract.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME lengeren to dwell, remain (somewhere), freq. of lengen, OE lengan to delay, prolong, lit., lengthen. See long 1 , -er 6

Related forms:
lin⋅ger⋅er, noun
lin⋅ger⋅ing⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
1, 4. tarry. 1, 5. loiter.
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lin·ger   (lĭng'gər)   
v.   lin·gered, lin·ger·ing, lin·gers

v.   intr.
  1. To be slow in leaving, especially out of reluctance; tarry. See Synonyms at stay1.
  2. To remain feebly alive for some time before dying.
  3. To persist: an aftertaste that lingers.
  4. To proceed slowly; saunter.
  5. To be tardy in acting; procrastinate.
v.   tr.
To pass (a period of time) in a leisurely or aimless manner.

[Middle English lengeren, frequentative of lengen, to prolong, from Old English lengan; see del-1 in Indo-European roots.]
lin'ger·er n., lin'ger·ing·ly adv.
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Linger

Lin"ger\ (l[i^][ng]"g[~e]r), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lingered (-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.

Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind. --Gray.

Perhaps thou linger'st, in deep thoughts detained. --Milton.

Syn: To loiter; lag; saunter; delay; tarry; stop; hesitate.

Linger

Lin"ger\, v. t. 1. To protract; to draw out. [Obs.]

She lingers my desires. --Shak.

2. To spend or pass in a lingering manner; -- with out; as, to linger out one's days on a sick bed. --Dryden.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : linger
Spanish: quedarse,
German: bleiben,
Japanese: 長く残る
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linger 
c.1300, lenger "reside, dwell," freq. of lengen "to tarry," from O.E. lengan "prolong, lengthen," from P.Gmc. *langijanan (cf. Du. lengen "to lengthen"), source of O.E. lang "long."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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