Definition of Linger

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Linger

To delay; to loiter; to remain or wait long; to be slow or reluctant in parting or moving; to be slow in deciding; to be in suspense; to hesitate.

To protract; to draw out.

To spend or pass in a lingering manner; -- with out; as, to linger out one's days on a sick bed.

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Linger Quotations

Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.
George Whitefield

Therefore, the observation must be explicitly made: In the Middle East and in the Muslim world, suspicions linger concerning the objectives of the West and notably the US.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan

When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask.
C. S. Forester

To be sure, debates will linger about whether Medicare is too large or too small. Debates remain about the allocation of Medicare dollars. But December 8, 2003, demonstrated that there is no debate about this most fundamental fact: Medicare must survive.
Michael Johns

So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories.
John Williams

I don't linger on the fact that Dawn Fraser was a great swimmer 40 years ago. That was in the past. I did break 41 world records, but I don't live on that today.
Dawn Fraser

Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them?
Clara Schumann

Linger Translations

linger in French is se prolonger
linger in German is sich hinziehen, verweilen
linger in Latin is commoror, demoror
linger in Spanish is demorarse

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