Crossword-Solution: LINGER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Linger | a. | 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. |
| Linger | v. t. | To protract; to draw out. |
| Linger | v. t. | To spend or pass in a lingering manner; -- with out; as, to linger out one's days on a sick bed. |
We have 48 clues for the answer “LINGER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Remain for more time than usual | 1 answer |
| Continue to stay. | 1 answer |
| Cranberries hit tune | 1 answer |
| Delay one's departure | 1 answer |
| Stick around longer than expected | 1 answer |
| Stick around longer than necessary | 1 answer |
| delay or hesitate | 1 answer |
| bummel | 1 answer |
| Stay a while | 2 answers |
| Don't go off | 2 answers |
| Be in no hurry to go | 2 answers |
| Extend one's stay | 2 answers |
| Stay on | 5 answers |
| Wait around | 5 answers |
| HANG about | 6 answers |
| spend time | 6 answers |
| Stay awhile | 6 answers |
| DROP back | 7 answers |
| AROUND STICK | 10 answers |
| AROUND FOR HANG | 10 answers |
| AROUND HANG | 10 answers |
| GO slowly | 10 answers |
| stick around | 12 answers |
| Bide-___ | 13 answers |
| Sojourn | 14 answers |
| Mope | 15 answers |
| "Hang in there" | 16 answers |
| Mosey | 17 answers |
| *Fall behind | 19 answers |
| take time | 19 answers |
| Hang around | 22 answers |
| Remain | 28 answers |
| Dwell | 32 answers |
| Procrastinate. | 32 answers |
| Dally | 33 answers |
| Tarry | 34 answers |
| Loiter | 34 answers |
| Lag | 35 answers |
| Hover | 37 answers |
| Abide | 42 answers |
| Persist | 44 answers |
| Hang | 48 answers |
| Endure | 51 answers |
| Extend | 54 answers |
| Dawdle | 66 answers |
| Idle | 78 answers |
| Pause | 79 answers |
| Delay | 80 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with LINGER (5)
Coming out of church that day she looked round in hope that Oak, whose bass voice she had heard rolling out from the gallery overhead in a most unconcerned manner, might chance to linger in her path in the old way.
Life had never brought them a gloomier hour; it was the point whither their pathway had so long been tending, and darkening ever, as it stole along—and yet it unclosed a charm that made them linger upon it, and claim another, and another, and, after all, another moment.
You know I have a certain weakness for mechanism, and I was inclined to linger among these; the more so as for the most part they had the interest of puzzles, and I could make only the vaguest guesses at what they were for.
This name was given, we are told, in former days, by the good housewives of the adjacent country, from the inveterate propensity of their husbands to linger about the village tavern on market days.
Given the chaos concerning standards, which promises to linger for the foreseeable future, BATTIN urged adoption of the following general principles: * Strive to understand the changing information requirements of scholarly disciplines as more and more technology is integrated into the process of research and scholarly communication in order to meet future scholarly needs, not to build for the past.
Quotes with LINGER (3)
Clare, I want to tell you, again, I love you. Our love has been the thread through the labyrinth, the net under the high-wire walker, the only real thing in this strange life of mine that I could ever trust. Tonight I feel that my love for you has more density in this world than I do, myself: as though it could linger on after me and surround you, keep you, hold you.
Every mother should endeavor to be a true artist. I do not mean by this that every woman should be a painter, sculptor, musician, poet, or writer, but the artist who will write on the table of childish innocence thoughts she will not blush to see read in the light of eternity and printed amid the archives of heaven, that the young may learn to wear them as amulets around their hearts and throw them as bulwarks around their lives, and that in the hour of temptation and trial t…
No difference, good or bad. Thoughts like birds in mind. Some fly in. Some fly out. Some stay at water hole to drink. Beware of birds that linger.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, Crossroads, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 37 times in crossword archives (1961–2025).