Lingering and Spare

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Lingering

Lingering noun - The act of tarrying.
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Spare and lingering are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Spare" instead an adjective "Lingering".
Nearby Words: linger, lingered, lingerer

Spare

Spare adjective - Being over what is needed.
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Lingering and spare are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Lingering" instead an adjective "Spare".
Nearby Words: spar, sparing, spared, sparely

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  • Right before the Final Battle of EarthBound Beginnings, Giygas offers to spare Ninten, and only Ninten, and take him back to Giygas' world out of lingering sentimentality for Ninten's great-grandmother Maria who was Giygas' Parental Substitute when he was a baby.
    Source: You Will Be Spared
  • She plans and executes an escape from a barracks full of warriors who spent months raping her nightly, and two books later kills her third husband to spare him from a slow, lingering death at the hands of powerful enemies.
    Source: Literature / The Farside Trilogy
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