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dawdle
[ dawd-l ]
verb (used without object)
- to waste time; idle; trifle; loiter:
Stop dawdling and help me with these packages!
- to move slowly, languidly, or dilatorily; saunter.
verb (used with object)
- to waste (time) by or as if by trifling (usually followed by away ):
He dawdled away the whole morning.
Synonyms: , , ,
dawdle
/ ˈ»åɔ˻åÉ™±ô /
verb
- intr to be slow or lag behind
- whentr, often foll by away to waste (time); trifle
Derived Forms
- ˈ»å²¹·É»å±ô¾±²Ô²µ±ô²â, adverb
- ˈ»å²¹·É»å±ô±ð°ù, noun
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- »å²¹·Éd±ô±ð°ù noun
- »å²¹·Éd±ô¾±²Ô²µÂ·±ô²â adverb
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of dawdle1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of dawdle1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
In France's tournament opener, after their heavy brigade had bashed away at a stubborn Wales defence for 12 phases, Dupont picked up the ball and dawdled sideways and backwards off the back of the breakdown.
She has set a six-minute daily time limit as a reminder not to dawdle on Instagram.
While these cities dawdle, the region’s residents suffer the effects of the housing shortage: high rents, overcrowding, eviction and homelessness.
The confidence of the Russian military reflected the Kremlin’s knowledge that Ukraine’s ammunition supplies were dwindling as the U.S. dawdled over approving more military aid.
Not yet knowing what I was in for, though, I dawdled, thinking the journey too far and impractical, until I finally relented about 20 hours before totality over Idaho.
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