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tarryingverbpresent participle of tarry to continue to be in a place for a significant amount of timeupon seeing the sun beginning to sink in the sky, we realized we had tarried too long on the summit of the mountain abiding, dwelling, hanging around, remaining, staying, sticking around awaiting, hanging on, holding on, waitingdallying, dawdling, lingering, loiteringoutstaying, overstaying bailing, bailing out, bugging out, buzzing (off), clearing off(chiefly British), clearing out, cutting out, departing, exiting, getting off, going, going off, leaving, moving, packing (up or off), peeling off, piking (out or off), pulling out, pushing off, pushing on, quitting, shoving (off), taking off, vamoosing, walking out absconding, booking(slang), decamping, escaping, evacuating, fleeing, flying, getting out, running away, scatting, scramming, skippingabandoning, deserting, forsaking, vacating to move or act slowlythe dean tarried in making his decision, still not sure if he should suspend the student or not crawling, creeping, dallying, dawdling, delaying, diddling, dillydallying, dragging, lagging, lingering, loitering, lollygagging(also lallygagging), moping, poking, shilly-shallying 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, marking time, 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 to reside as a temporary guesthe tarried with us all summer, sleeping on the screened-in porch most nights crashing(slang), sojourning, staying, visiting coming by, coming over, dropping by, dropping in, running in, stepping in, stopping (by)frequenting, hanging (around or out), hauntinginhabiting, occupying abiding, dwelling, living, residing |