verb
- Remain present although waning or gradually dying.
- usage: "Her perfume lingered on"
- Be about.
- usage: "The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square"; "Who is this man that is hanging around the department"
- synonyms: loiter, lounge, footle, lollygag, loaf, lallygag, hang around, mess about, tarry, lurk, mill about, mill around
- Leave slowly and hesitantly.
- synonyms: tarry
- Take one's time; proceed slowly.
- synonyms: dawdle
- Move to and fro.
- usage: "The shy student lingered in the corner"
- synonyms: hover
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