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{
"term": "linger",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "linger",
"heSheIt": "lingers"
},
"pastSimple": "lingered",
"pastParticiple": "lingered",
"ingForm": "lingering"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to continue to exist for longer than expected",
"sensetop": "linger on",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The faint smell of her perfume lingered in the room."
},
{
"text": "The civil war lingered on well into the 1930s.",
"contextForm": "linger on"
},
{
"text": "It will linger forever in the minds of many people."
},
{
"text": "The feelings of hurt and resentment lingered on for years."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["long", "still", "forever"],
"preposition": ["on", "over"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to stay somewhere for longer because you do not want to leave; to spend a long time doing something",
"sensetop": "(+ adv./prep.)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She lingered for a few minutes to talk to Nick."
},
{
"text": "We lingered over breakfast on the terrace."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["long", "still", "forever"],
"preposition": ["on", "over"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to continue to look at somebody/something or think about something for longer than usual",
"sensetop": "linger (on somebody/something)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "His eyes lingered on the diamond ring on her finger."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["long", "still", "forever"],
"preposition": ["on", "over"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "to stay alive but become weaker",
"sensetop": "linger (on)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "He lingered on for several months after the heart attack."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["long", "still", "forever"],
"preposition": ["on", "over"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈlɪŋɡə(r)/",
"audio": "li/linger/linger__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈlɪŋɡəz/",
"audio": "li/linger/lingers__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈlɪŋɡəd/",
"audio": "li/linger/lingered__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈlɪŋɡərɪŋ/",
"audio": "li/linger/lingering__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈlɪŋɡər/",
"audio": "li/linger/linger__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈlɪŋɡərz/",
"audio": "li/linger/lingers__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈlɪŋɡərd/",
"audio": "li/linger/lingered__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈlɪŋɡərɪŋ/",
"audio": "li/linger/lingering__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English (in the sense ‘dwell, abide’): frequentative of obsolete leng ‘prolong’, of Germanic origin; related to German längen ‘make long(er)’, also to long."
}