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Meanings of dawdle in English

Catalan
trigar

Take one's time; proceed slowly.

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      trigar

      Hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.

            Waste time.

                  Usage of dawdle in English
                  1
                  I go into a few more shops: I dawdle over some china.
                  Nancy: A Novel
                  2
                  It wasn't a quick process, but I tried not to dawdle, either.
                  Proven guilty
                  3
                  The last customers dawdle out with a grunt intended for a salutation.
                  Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories
                  4
                  Five minutes ago he seemed willing enough to dawdle on till midnight.
                  Nancy: A Novel
                  5
                  It is after four, but we'll have time if we don't dawdle.
                  Betty Gordon in Washington; Or, Strange Adventures in a Great Ci...
                  6
                  Then she had had time, at least, to dream and to dawdle!
                  The Miller Of Old Church
                  7
                  Third hour of the afternoon, which means I've no more time to dawdle.
                  The lies of locke lamora
                  8
                  Think positive and climb quickly through difficult sections-you'llget pumped if you dawdle.
                  Rock and Ice Magazine
                  9
                  If we wish to reach Muira's before midnight, there's no time to dawdle.
                  The devil wears plaid
                  10
                  But then the Germans work, while the Dutch dawdle and the English drink.
                  Letters from the Cape
                  11
                  Carefully, I dawdle behind, so that my companion cannot overhear their whispered speech.
                  The Lady of the Rivers
                  12
                  Some dawdle, some bustle, a few loudly greet friends and frenemies.
                  The Irish Times
                  13
                  Most of 'em dawdle so at the few things they try to do.
                  A Garland for Girls
                  14
                  You all know when you learn with a will, and when you dawdle.
                  The Ethics of the Dust
                  15
                  It is not a dawdle or a mosey or a wander.
                  The Irish Times
                  16
                  Could I dawdle here a moment longer if I did?
                  The Angel Stone
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                  Dawdle through the time
                  Dawdle across language varieties
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