| 单词 | to linger away |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto linger away a. with adverb compl. (forth, on, out): To draw out, prolong, protract by lingering, tarrying, or dallying. to linger away: to waste (time) by lingering. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > have duration [verb (transitive)] > cause to endure, sustain, or prolong lengOE drawOE teec1200 forlengtha1300 lengtha1300 drivec1300 tarryc1320 proloynec1350 continuec1380 to draw alonga1382 longa1382 dretch1393 conservea1398 to draw (out) in, into, at, or on lengtha1400 prorogue1419 prolongc1425 aroomc1440 prorogate?a1475 protend?a1475 dilate1489 forlong1496 relong1523 to draw out1542 sustentate1542 linger1543 defer1546 pertract1548 propagate1548 protract1548 linger1550 lengthen1555 train1556 detract?a1562 to make forth (long, longer)1565 stretch1568 extend1574 extenuate1583 dree1584 wire-draw1598 to spin out1603 trail1604 disabridge1605 produce1605 continuate1611 out-length1617 spin1629 to eke out1641 producta1670 prolongate1671 drawl1694 drag1697 perennate1698 string1867 perennialize1898 the world > time > spending time > spend time or allow time to pass [verb (transitive)] > waste time leese?c1225 losea1340 defer1382 wastea1400 slip1435 consumea1500 superexpend1513 slow?1522 sloth1523 to fode forth1525 slack1548 dree1584 sleuth1584 confound1598 spenda1604 to fret out1608 to spin out1608 misplace1609 spend1614 tavern1628 devast1632 to drill away, on, outa1656 dulla1682 to dally away1685 squander1693 to linger awaya1704 dangle1727 dawdle1768 slim1812 diddle1826 to run out the clock1957 1550 H. Latimer Moste Faithfull Serm. before Kynges Maiestye sig. Fviiv It shal cause thinges to haue good successe, and that matters shal not be lyngred forth from day to dai. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 i. ii. 238 I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse, borrowing onely lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable. View more context for this quotation 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida v. xi. 9 Let your breefe plagues be mercy, And linger not our sure destructions on. View more context for this quotation 1622 T. Dekker & P. Massinger Virgin Martir ii. sig. E3v Ile not insult on a base humbled prey, By lingring out thy terrors. 1695 J. Dryden Death Mr. Purcell 29 Now live secure, and linger out your days. a1704 T. Brown Oration in Praise Drunkenness in Wks. (1707) I. i. 53 The first linger away their Lives in perpetual Drudgery. 1721 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius No. 34 (1754) 179 To prevent the scholars from ling'ring away their time, and neglecting their studies. 1829 W. Scott Jrnl. 8 Mar. (1946) 32 Half measures do but linger out the feud. 1833 C. Lamb Wedding in Last Ess. Elia We all began to be afraid that a suit which as yet had abated none of its ardours, might at last be lingered on, till passion had time to cool. 1860 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (ed. 2) VI. 522 His policy, therefore, was for the present to linger out the negotiations. a1891 J. R. Lowell Old Eng. Dramatists (1892) vi. 130 Ford lingers-out his heart-breaks too much. < as lemmas |
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