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Definition of loitered : of Loiter

Synonyms:

dragged, slowed, crawled, hindered, lingered, dawdled, trudged, delayed, retarded, plodded, poked, crept

Usage examples:

• During the half hour the young gentlemen, broken into pairs, loitered arm in arm up and down a small piece of ground behind the house. - "Dickens As an Educator", James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes.
• The Brethren, however, loitered in groups before their doorways, along the west side of the quadrangle, awaiting a signal from the porter's lodge. - "Brother Copas", Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch.
• They dressed for dinner, loitered about among the roses in the long twilight, and Susan met a young Englishman who later wrote her three letters on his way home to Oxfordshire. - "Saturday's Child", Kathleen Norris.