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# linger

«linger» in Mova's school dictionary: **to stay somewhere longer than usual or than needed…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (linger, lingers, lingered, lingering)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To linger is to stay somewhere longer than usual or than needed, because you do not want to leave. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/linger/#m1)

2) To linger is when a smell, feeling or illness stays for a long time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/linger/#m2)

3) To linger over something is to take your time with it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/linger/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Stories: «she lingered at the gate». Everyday: smells and colds that linger. School: «Don't linger in the corridors.» It tells the reader something is slow to go away.

### examples

- We lingered on the beach until sunset. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/linger/#x1)
- The smell of smoke lingered for days. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/linger/#x2)
- Don't linger in the corridor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/linger/#x3)
- A cough can linger after a cold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/linger/#x4)
- He lingered over his breakfast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/linger/#x5)
- The happy memory lingered in her mind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/linger/#x6)
- Oh, sir, do not linger here, or he will eat you too.’ [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/linger/#x7)

### note

Regular: lingered, lingering. Adjective «lingering» (a lingering smell).

### In the corpora

- [Well, well, we won't linger over that now.»](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/58-willows-ch9-part3-the-sea-rat/27/)
- [For except we had lingered, surely we had now returned a second time.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1409/)
- [And Ehud escaped while they lingered, having passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirah.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.88/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «linger» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/linger/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.