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Synonyms for linger

hang on

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stay

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Synonyms for linger

to stop temporarily and remain, as if reluctant to leave

to continue to be in a place

to go or move slowly so that progress is hindered

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Synonyms for linger

remain present although waning or gradually dying

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leave slowly and hesitantly

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move to and fro

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Staring at the ruins of the village they send their Sudanese nurse to talk with a few of the lingerers, to offer blankets and plastic sheeting for shelter.
curfew and threatened to arrest the hundreds of late night lingerers and songsters.
Unfortunately, I could never quite figure out who was an insider in the semi-closed community of the student protestors and who was not, or if there were peripheral lingerers and onlookers who reside in the ephemeral space demarcating the boundaries of closed and open communities, or what happened to the community that had defined itself in relation to being against "the evil" once this entity was laid to rest during the elaborate mock funeral held by the protestors.
Lingerers from the previous Mass are inching their cars out.
In the autumn garden there are a few more lingerers, hanging out to the bitter end.
Game Mr Farage began his 20-minute slot by telling lingerers: "I'm here today as the leader of an insurgent political force in the United Kingdom.