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(intransitive) To delay; to be late or tardy in beginning or doing anything. / (intransitive) To linger in expectation of something or until something is done or happens.

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tarry

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Source Word

tarry

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈtæɹ.i/

Verb

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(intransitive) To delay; to be late or tardy in beginning or doing anything. / (intransitive) To linger in expectation of something or until something is done or happens.

Japanese Meaning

遅れる、始動が遅くなる / 何かを待っている、もしくは期待しながらじっとしている

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We cannot tarry any longer if we want to catch the last train.

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終電に間に合いたければ、もうこれ以上ぐずぐずしてはいられない。

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Sense（1）

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

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Sense（2）

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

And, thinking of to-morrow, when the church would rise up, singing, under the booming Sunday light, he thought of the light for which they tarried, which, in an instant, filled the soul, causing […] the new-born in Christ to testify: Once I was blind and now I see.

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Sense（3）

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

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Sense（4）

(intransitive) To stay somewhere temporarily.

In this by-place of nature, there abode, in a remote period of American history, that is to say, some thirty years since, a worthy wight of the name of Ichabod Crane; who sojourned, or, as he expressed it, "tarried," in Sleepy Hollow[…].

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