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dawdle
dawdle is a 6-letter English word with 6 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 12 · 6 senses
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- 1intransitive verb
To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter.
- 2transitive verb
To waste by trifling; as, to dawdle away a whole morning.
- 3noun
A dawdler.
- 4verb
hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.
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- 5verb
waste time
"Get busy--don't dally!"
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- 6verb
take one's time; proceed slowly
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