lingering

Speech parts

1. lingering - Noun

2. lingering - Adjective

3. lingering - Verb

Meaning

of Linger

Delaying.

Drawn out in time; remaining long; protracted; as, a lingering disease.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

tarriance slack long longer remain continue remaining subacute dawdle extended constant slow stay continuing conservative
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Antonyms

being acting rapid brief ending calling
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Hypernyms

delay holdup

Phrases with the word

lingering death lingering touch

Examples

The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever. Georg Büchner

When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death. I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion. George Etherege

But winter lingering chills the lap of May. Oliver Goldsmith

A wild dissolving bliss Over my frame he breathed, approaching near, And bent his eyes of kindling tenderness Near mine, and on my lips impressed a lingering kiss. Percy Bysshe Shelley

Yes, evolution by descent from a common ancestor is clearly true. If there was any lingering doubt about the evidence from the fossil record, the study of DNA provides the strongest possible proof of our relatedness to all other living things. Francis Collins

I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. They are medicine, and I would eventually die a lingering death. I had rather die on the field of battle. Sitting Bull

Close letter words and terms

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