slow to end or disappear:
a painful and lingering death * a last lingering look * lingering doubts / hopes * a lingering smell of machine oil
lingeringly adverb:
He kissed her again, lingeringly.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for lingering is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is lingering a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, lingering is tagged as adjective.
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