Words and phrases that have a meaning related to linger: (178 results)
Antonyms:
belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, hasten, hie, hotfoot, pelt along, race, rush, rush along, speed
Often used in the same context:
persist, subside, dissipate, fester, fade, lurk, percolate, seep, loom, reverberate, haunt, wallow, roil, recede, creep, abate, hover, gnaw, clouded, disappear, meander, swirl, abound, waft, pervade, permeate, dwell, overshadow, ruminate, reemerge, beckon, bedevil, stirs, darken, vanish, remain, worsen, languish, smolder, wander, simmers, predominate, enshroud, endure, dampen, suffuse, exacerbate, heighten, diminish, mar, resound, intensify, nagging, erase, ponder, resurface, stewing, lasts, resonate, erupt, conjure, evoke, muddle, tiptoe, banish, revel, drift, stumble, marinate, rankle, dawdle, evaporate, luxuriate, portend, aggravate, seethe, savor, suffer, recur, agonize, soak, dulled, reappear, depress, foreshadow, unfold, arise, erode, eases, magnify, vex, leave, slosh, resurge, calcify, overlook, afflict, becloud, drags, bask, loiter, reek, nothing, moses, one, anything, disappearing, doth, none, augustine, depart, pre, someone, something, arid, cf, descend, lie, master, ones, plato, hers, fortnight, alive, foolishness, but, else, fer, fleeting, forgotten, sad, theirs, unheeded, afraid, ago, ancients, before, come, dread, dreadful, epilogue
Appears in the definition of:
drag, drop behind, get behind, hang back, trail
Synonyms:
Also try:dally, footle, hang around, lallygag, loaf, lollygag, lounge, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry
— Adjectives for linger: long, few, little, longer, bal, many, old, past, middle, mournful, dead, more...
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