Verb

• S: (v) linger, dawdle (take one's time; proceed slowly)
• S: (v) dally, dawdle (waste time) "Get busy--don't dally!"
• S: (v) lag, dawdle, fall back, fall behind (hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.)
• direct troponym / full troponym
• S: (v) drag, trail, get behind, hang back, drop behind, drop back (to lag or linger behind) "But in so many other areas we still are dragging"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (v) follow (to travel behind, go after, come after) "The ducklings followed their mother around the pond"; "Please follow the guide through the museum"
• S: (v) lag, dawdle, fall back, fall behind (hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.)
• S: (v) tailgate (follow at a dangerously close distance) "it is dangerous to tailgate another vehicle"
• S: (v) shadow (follow, usually without the person's knowledge) "The police are shadowing her"
• S: (v) carry (pursue a line of scent or be a bearer) "the dog was taught to fetch and carry"
• derivationally related form
• sentence frame
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