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lingers

verb , present tense third-person singular of linger

Synonyms and Antonyms of lingers

to move or act slowly

since they were charging by the hour, the house painters lingered in finishing up their work

Synonyms of lingers

crawls, creeps, dallies, dawdles, delays, diddles, dillydallies, drags, lags, loiters, lollygags (also lallygags), mopes, pokes, shilly-shallies, tarries

Words Related to lingers

fiddles (around), fools around, messes around, monkeys (around), plays, potters (around), putters (around), trifles

hangs (around or out), idles, loafs, lolls, lounges

ambles, eases, inches, lumbers, plods, saunters, shuffles, staggers, strolls

decelerates, slows (down or up)

filibusters, procrastinates, stalls, temporizes

Phrases Synonymous with lingers

drags one's feet (also drags one's heels), drops behind, falls behind, hangs fire, marks time, takes one's time

Near Antonyms of lingers

bowls, breezes, darts, humps, hurtles, hustles, scrambles, stampedes

gallops, jogs, runs, sprints, trots

accelerates, quickens, speeds (up)

catches up, fast-forwards, outpaces, outruns, outstrips, overtakes

Antonyms of lingers

barrels, bolts, careers, courses, dashes, flies, hastens, hotfoots (it), hurries, races, rips, rockets, runs, rushes, scoots, scuds, scurries, speeds, tears, whirls, whisks, whizzes, zips

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