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marking timephrasepresent participle of mark time to move or act slowlyThe soldiers marked time until they were given the signal to move forward. crawling, creeping, dallying, dawdling, delaying, diddling, dillydallying, dragging, lagging, lingering, loitering, lollygagging(also lallygagging), moping, poking, shilly-shallying, tarrying fiddling (around), fooling around, messing around, monkeying (around), playing, pottering (around), puttering (around), triflinghanging (around or out), idling, loafing, lolling, loungingambling, easing, inching, lumbering, plodding, sauntering, shuffling, staggering, strollingdecelerating, slowing (down or up)filibustering, procrastinating, stalling, temporizing dragging one's feet(also dragging one's heels), dropping behind, falling behind, hanging fire, taking one's time barreling(or barrelling), bolting, careering, coursing, dashing, flying, hastening, hotfooting (it), hurrying, racing, ripping, rocketing, running, rushing, scooting, scudding, scurrying, speeding, tearing, whirling, whisking, whizzing, zipping bowling, breezing, darting, humping, hurtling, hustling, scrambling, stampedinggalloping, jogging, running, sprinting, trottingaccelerating, quickening, speeding (up)catching up, fast-forwarding, outpacing, outrunning, outstripping, overtaking |