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lingeringadjective still existing or happening after something is completed or removedThe area is still feeling the lingering effects of the hurricane. There are lingering questions about the extent of his involvement in the crime. residualleftover, remainingabiding, biding, continuing, enduring, holding on, holding up, keeping up, lasting, perduring, persisting, running onstaying, sticking around, tarryingcarrying through, prevailing, surviving abating, dying (down), ebbing, letting up, moderating, subsiding, waningceasing, closing, concluding, desisting, dying, discontinuing, ending, expiring, finishing, lapsing, leaving off, passing, quitting, stopping, terminating, winding up lingeringverbpresent participle of lingerto move or act slowlysince they were charging by the hour, the house painters lingered in finishing up their work crawling, creeping, dallying, dawdling, delaying, diddling, dillydallying, dragging, lagging, 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, 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 |