tarry

tarry

verb

Definition of TARRY

1

to continue to be in a place for a significant amount of time <upon seeing the sun beginning to sink in the sky, we realized we had tarried too long on the summit of the mountain>

Synonyms abide, dwell, hang around, remain, stick around, tarry

Related Words await, hang on, hold on, wait; dally, dawdle, linger, loiter; outstay, overstay

Near Antonyms abscond, book [slang], decamp, escape, evacuate, flee, fly, get out, run away, scat, scram, skip; abandon, desert, forsake, vacate

Antonyms bail, bail out, bug out, buzz (off), clear off [chiefly British], clear out, cut out, depart, exit, get off, go, go off, leave, move, pack (up or off), peel off, pike (out or off), pull out, push off, push on, quit, shove (off), take off, vamoose, walk out

2

to move or act slowly <the dean tarried in making his decision, still not sure if he should suspend the student or not>

Synonyms crawl, creep, dally, dawdle, diddle, dillydally, drag, lag, linger, loiter, lollygag (also lallygag), mope, poke, shilly-shally, tarry

Related Words fiddle (around), fool around, mess around, monkey (around), play, potter (around), putter (around), trifle; hang (around or out), idle, loaf, loll, lounge; amble, ease, inch, lumber, plod, saunter, shuffle, stagger, stroll; decelerate, slow (down or up); filibuster, procrastinate, stall, temporize

Near Antonyms bowl, breeze, dart, hump, hurtle, hustle, scramble, stampede; gallop, jog, run, sprint, trot; accelerate, quicken, speed (up); catch up, fast-forward, outpace, outrun, outstrip, overtake

Antonyms barrel, bolt, career, course, dash, fly, hasten, hotfoot (it), hurry, race, rip, rocket, run, rush, scoot, scud, scurry, speed, tear, whirl, whisk, whiz (or whizz), zip

3

to reside as a temporary guest <he tarried with us all summer, sleeping on the screened-in porch most nights>

Synonyms crash [slang], sojourn, stay, tarry

Related Words come by, come over, drop by, drop in, run in, step in, stop (by); frequent, hang (around or out), haunt; inhabit, occupy

Near Antonyms abide, dwell, live, reside