linger

Everyday

1. To linger is to stay somewhere longer than usual or than needed, because you do not want to leave. tree →
2. To linger is when a smell, feeling or illness stays for a long time. tree →
3. To linger over something is to take your time with it. tree →

In the lessons

Stories: «she lingered at the gate». Everyday: smells and colds that linger. School: «Don't linger in the corridors.» It tells the reader something is slow to go away.

Examples

• We lingered on the beach until sunset. tree →
• The smell of smoke lingered for days. tree →
• Don't linger in the corridor. tree →
• A cough can linger after a cold. tree →
• He lingered over his breakfast. tree →
• The happy memory lingered in her mind. tree →
• Oh, sir, do not linger here, or he will eat you too.’ tree →

Note

Regular: lingered, lingering. Adjective «lingering» (a lingering smell).

In Jewish tradition

Stories: «she lingered at the gate». Everyday: smells and colds that linger. School: «Don't linger in the corridors.» It tells the reader something is slow to go away.

Examples

• For except we had lingered, surely we had now returned a second time.' (Torah GEN.43.10, JPS 1917) tree →
• But he lingered; and the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him. (Torah GEN.19.16, JPS 1917) tree →
• And Ehud escaped while they lingered, having passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirah. (Prophets JDG.3.26, JPS 1917) tree →

Note

Regular: lingered, lingering. Adjective «lingering» (a lingering smell).