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to dawdle
01
to waste time when one should be acting with purpose
Grammatical Information
Composition
Simple
Action verb
Regular
Present tense
dawdle
3rd person singular
dawdles
Present participle
dawdling
Past simple
dawdled
Past participle
dawdled
Examples
He dawdled in the kitchen long after breakfast was over.
02
to walk slowly and without energy
Examples
He dawdled down the hallway, dragging his feet.
03
to waste time on something in a slow, ineffective, or unproductive way
Examples
She dawdled the afternoon away on unfinished sketches.
Lexical Tree
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