Usually means: Stayed in place longer than expected.
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  1. lingered: Merriam-Webster
  2. lingered: Collins English Dictionary
  3. lingered: Vocabulary.com
  4. Lingered, lingered: Wordnik
  5. lingered: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. lingered: Wiktionary
  7. Lingered, lingered: Dictionary.com
  8. lingered: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Lingered: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Lingered: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. lingered: FreeDictionary.org
  12. lingered: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. lingered: Legal dictionary

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  1. lingered: Idioms

(Note: See linger as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Linger)

verb:  (intransitive) To stay or remain in a place or situation, especially as if unwilling to depart or not easily able to do so.
verb:  (intransitive) To remain alive or existent although still proceeding toward death or extinction; to die gradually.
verb:  (intransitive, idiomatic, often followed by on) To consider or contemplate for a period of time; to engage in analytic thinking or discussion.
noun:  A surname.
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