Meaning & use
dawdled
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Moved slowly or took more time than necessary to do something.
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He dawdled over breakfast and nearly missed the bus.
The children dawdled along the path, stopping to examine every bug.
A note on using this word
Believed to derive from an old dialect word meaning to walk unsteadily or idly.
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