lingers
USLING-gurz/ˈlɪŋɡɚz/UKLING-guhz/ˈlɪŋɡəz/
- 1Third-person singular simple present of linger.
A faint scent of perfume lingers long after she leaves the room.
The melody lingers in his head for days after the concert.
Note
All three meanings of the verb share this form, and none takes a direct object: something lingers, but it never lingers anything. A scent or a tune lingers by staying when it might have gone. A dying person lingers by holding on to life. A thinker lingers by staying with an idea to turn it over. Any object belongs to a following phrase, never to the verb itself.
lingers is a form of linger
linger, verb: To stay or remain in a place or situation longer than expected, often as if unwilling or unable to leave. Full entry
- Spelling
- linger → lingers: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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