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# linger

verb (linger, lingers, lingered, lingering)

«linger» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To linger is to stay somewhere longer than usual or than needed, because you do not want to leave. [tree →](https://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://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/linger/#m3)

### 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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/linger/#x1)
- The smell of smoke lingered for days. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/linger/#x2)
- Don't linger in the corridor. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/linger/#x3)
- A cough can linger after a cold. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/linger/#x4)
- He lingered over his breakfast. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/linger/#x5)
- The happy memory lingered in her mind. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/linger/#x7)

### Note

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

## In Jewish tradition

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

- For except we had lingered, surely we had now returned a second time.' (Torah GEN.43.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/linger/#x1)
- But he lingered; and the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him. (Torah GEN.19.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/linger/#x2)
- And Ehud escaped while they lingered, having passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirah. (Prophets JDG.3.26, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/linger/#x3)

### Note

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «linger» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/linger/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«linger» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/linger.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «linger» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/linger/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«linger» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/linger.html) on Mova free.