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Est. 1828
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'linger'
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Words to Describe linger

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Things linger often describes ("linger ________")

  • ellison
  • behind
  • outside
  • briefly
  • north
  • things
  • something
  • legends
  • traditions
  • survivals
  • beauties
  • traces
  • conceits
  • seconds
  • half
  • death
  • awhile
  • will
  • life
  • memories
  • today
  • overhead
  • effects
  • longer
  • near

How linger often is described ("________ linger")

  • dost
  • light
  • patient
  • hippocampus
  • speaking
  • colonial
  • dead
  • hot
  • adequate
  • ever
  • exquisite
  • longer
  • mournful
  • many
  • aged
  • spiritual
  • old
  • cold
  • sainted
  • nerveless
  • bal
  • few
  • little
  • bloodstream
  • magic
  • fourth
  • hen
  • grand
  • evil
  • still
  • past
  • handed
  • older
  • fancy
  • reluctant
  • abstract
  • long
  • learned
  • must
  • twilight
  • sadness
  • unhappy
  • sanskrit
  • divine
  • bared
  • middle
  • sun
  • left
  • ancient
  • earlier
  • last
  • brush

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  • aggravate
  • pervade
  • seethe
  • bask
  • unheeded
  • erase
  • resound
  • enshroud
  • muddle
  • savor
  • slosh
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