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tarry🔊

To delay; to be late or tardy in beginning or doing anything.

📑 Synonyms: forestall put off

To linger in expectation of something or until something is done or happens.

📑 Synonyms: abide

To abide, stay or wait somewhere, especially if longer than planned.

To stay somewhere temporarily.

To wait for; to stay or stop for; to allow to linger.

📑 Synonyms: await wait on
💬 Quotations
"If I had heard otherwise," said the old man, looking up with a stern and menacing countenance, "you should have heard of it too." And he plodded on his way, tarrying no farther question.

A sojourn.

📑 Synonyms: stay stop stop-over

Resembling tar.

Covered with tar.

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