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dawdle

verb

1 holidaymakers were dawdling over breakfast:

linger, dally, take one's time, drag one's feet, be slow, waste time, kill time, fritter time away, idle;

delay, procrastinate, stall, hang fire, mark time, potter about/around/round;

informal dilly-dally, let the grass grow under one's feet;

archaic or literary tarry.

▷antonyms hurry.

2 Ruth dawdled back through the wood:

amble, stroll, go/walk slowly, loiter (along), move at a snail's pace, not keep pace, potter, hold back, lag behind, fall behind, trail behind;

informal mosey, tootle;

British, informal pootle, bimble, mooch, swan.

▷antonyms speed.

choose the right word	dawdle, linger, loiter
See linger.

dawdle Oxford Dictionary of English