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# tarry

«tarry» in Mova's school dictionary: **to stay somewhere for a while or to wait before going on** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (tarry, tarries, tarried, tarrying)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (old use) To tarry is to stay somewhere for a while or to wait before going on. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tarry/#m1)

2) (old use) To tarry is to be slow to act, or to delay. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tarry/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in fairy tales a hero is asked to tarry, meaning to stay and rest or wait a little before going on

### examples

- Tarry with me for a while. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tarry/#x1)
- The knight did not tarry at the gate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tarry/#x2)
- Why did you tarry so long? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tarry/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [and tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's fury turn away;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.822/)
- [Why tarry the wheels of his chariots?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.153/)
- [And the king said: 'Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.250/)
- [But David tarried at Jerusalem.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.269/)
- [And the king went forth, and all the people after him; and they tarried in Beth-merhak.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.436/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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