Loitering synonyms
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To stay hidden, ready to spring out, attack, etc.; lie in wait
To continue to stay, esp. from a reluctance to leave
To wait or stay temporarily:
To lounge is defined as to lay around or sit around in some kind of comfortable couch or chair.
To walk in an idle, leisurely manner; saunter
(Medicine) To separate from surrounding living tissue. Used of dead tissue.
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To saunter is defined as to stroll or walk slowly.
To lean or lounge about in a relaxed or lazy manner
To be lazy or idle; loaf
To send to prison.
Hesitate is defined as to pause before deciding, acting or speaking.
To waste time in hesitation or vacillation; loiter or dawdle
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To cause to be later or slower than expected or desired:
To spend (time) without haste or purpose.
Flag is defined as to signal or mark something to get someone's attention.
To draw (something) out over a period of time; protract tediously or painfully
To drag or be dragged along, brushing the ground:
To reduce the tension of; relax; loosen
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To go easily and unhurriedly; walk in a leisurely manner
To pause is defined as to stop for a brief period of time.
To linger or wait close by, esp. in an overprotective, insistent, or anxious way
To be a waiter or waitress at:
To walk in a lazy or clumsy manner, barely lifting the feet; shuffle
Traipse is to walk about without purpose or to walk about in a tired and reluctant way.
To postpone or delay needlessly.
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To spend (time) doing minor or unimportant activities:
To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.
To spend (time) idly:
To diddle is defined as to behave in an unproductive manner or to cheat or lie about something on purpose.
To waste or kill time:
Shirk is defined as to avoid or get out of doing something that should be done.
To live as a bum or vagrant
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To proceed in a slow or lazy manner; putter:
To waste time, especially in indecision; dawdle or vacillate.
hurrying (antonym)
To hurry is defined as to rush, move quickly or do something faster than is comfortable.
vamoosing (antonym)
To leave hurriedly.
rushing (antonym)
To move or go swiftly or impetuously; dash
hastening (antonym)
To cause to move or act swiftly:
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fasting (related)
In a dissipated, immoderate way:
Find another word for loitering. In this page you can discover 43 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for loitering, like: lurking, lingering, tarrying, loafing, lounging, strolling, sloughing, sauntering, lolling, lazing and lagging.