tarried

verb

past tense of tarry
1
as in waited
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

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2
as in lingered
to move or act slowly the dean tarried in making his decision, still not sure if he should suspend the student or not

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3
as in stayed
to reside as a temporary guest he tarried with us all summer, sleeping on the screened-in porch most nights

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tarried
  1. waited
  2. lingered
  3. stayed
  4. remained
  5. delayed
  6. visited
  7. dragged
  8. crawled
Verb
  • Responsible leaders would have hit the pause button and waited until the votes are in to see if the property tax change became law.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 11 July 2026
  • The company self-certified the weather delay category with its federal regulator, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), in July 2025 but waited until two months ago to begin offering wagers.
    — Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 9 July 2026
Definition of waited
Verb
  • At the Pfizer building on East Forty-second Street, earlier this week, disaster, and the sense of excitement that disaster can create, lingered.
    — D. T. Max, New Yorker, 11 July 2026
  • Because the problem lingered, the break presented an opportunity to address it before the second half.
    — Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026
Definition of lingered
Verb
  • While shooting the story, Wertheim and a producer stayed overnight.
    — Brit McCandless Farmer, CBS News, 12 July 2026
  • But Royals reliever Matt Strahm allowed a single to Pete Alonso and a two-run homer to Colton Cowser that stayed just fair down the right-field line for what proved to be the winning runs in the bottom of the eighth.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 11 July 2026
Definition of stayed
Verb
  • England and Argentina remained deadlocked 0-0 with no shots on goal at either end.
    — Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 16 July 2026
  • For decades, every movie remained in cinemas for at least 90 days before heading to digital platforms.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 15 July 2026
Definition of remained
Verb
  • Negotiations started months before the expiration date, Acree said, but were delayed in good faith because of new leadership at the helm.
    — Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 15 July 2026
  • More than half of Chinese clean-tech investments in the US announced since 2022 have been canceled, paused, or delayed.
    — Tasneem Nashrulla, semafor.com, 14 July 2026
Definition of delayed
Verb
  • Former patrons of the bar and other mourners visited the site Tuesday, adding to the growing pile of flowers leaning on the guardrails cordoning off the location of the blaze.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 14 July 2026
  • One afternoon, the church is visited by a pair of strange twins in matching white tracksuits, who call themselves simply ‘Firstborn’ (Sarah Coffey) and ‘Secondborn’ (Kimball Farley).
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 14 July 2026
Definition of visited
Verb
  • Two men dragged a third into the emergency room and laid him on the floor, according to footage shown in court.
    — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2026
  • His efforts dragged him into a love triangle with Annis and her former partner, Corbin Mims, which ultimately left Caleb single ahead of Casa Amor, the show’s midseason twist.
    — Tanya Fedak, Variety, 10 July 2026
Definition of dragged
Verb
  • Hull testified that Robinson later returned in different clothing, walking with a limp, rolled onto the roof of a building on campus and crawled to the edge of the rooftop around the time the shot was fired.
    — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 10 July 2026
  • Their father dismounted, went down on foot, climbed the fence his son had crawled under.
    — Emily Ruskovich, The Atlantic, 7 July 2026
Definition of crawled
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