Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to malinger
Participle: malingered
Gerund: malingering
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | malinger |
| you | malinger |
| he;she;it | malingers |
| we | malinger |
| you | malinger |
| they | malinger |
Perfect
| I | have malingered |
| you | have malingered |
| he;she;it | has malingered |
| we | have malingered |
| you | have malingered |
| they | have malingered |
Past
| I | malingered |
| you | malingered |
| he;she;it | malingered |
| we | malingered |
| you | malingered |
| they | malingered |
Pluperfect
| I | had malingered |
| you | had malingered |
| he;she;it | had malingered |
| we | had malingered |
| you | had malingered |
| they | had malingered |
Future
| I | will malinger |
| you | will malinger |
| he;she;it | will malinger |
| we | will malinger |
| you | will malinger |
| they | will malinger |
Future Perfect
| I | will have malingered |
| you | will have malingered |
| he;she;it | will have malingered |
| we | will have malingered |
| you | will have malingered |
| they | will have malingered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | malinger |
| you | malinger |
| he;she;it | malinger |
| we | malinger |
| you | malinger |
| they | malinger |
Perfect
| I | have malingered |
| you | have malingered |
| he;she;it | have malingered |
| we | have malingered |
| you | have malingered |
| they | have malingered |
Imperfect
| I | malingered |
| you | malingered |
| he;she;it | malingered |
| we | malingered |
| you | malingered |
| they | malingered |
Pluperfect
| I | had malingered |
| you | had malingered |
| he;she;it | had malingered |
| we | had malingered |
| you | had malingered |
| they | had malingered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would malinger |
| you | would malinger |
| he;she;it | would malinger |
| we | would malinger |
| you | would malinger |
| they | would malinger |
Perfect
| I | would have malingered |
| you | would have malingered |
| he;she;it | would have malingered |
| we | would have malingered |
| you | would have malingered |
| they | would have malingered |
Imperative
| you | malinger |
| we | Let's malinger |
| you | malinger |
Verbs conjugated like 'malinger'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'malinger'
linger,
aline,
anger,
befinger,
blinder,
blinker,
calender,
clinker,
cylinder,
danger,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to avoid a duty or responsibility
- blow off, dog, doss, duck, goldbrick, goof off, lollygag, procrastinate, shirk, slack off, soldier, swing the lead
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1785 (implied in
malingerer), from Fr.
malingrer "to suffer," perhaps also "pretend to be ill," from
malingre "ailing, sickly," possibly a blend of
mingre "sickly, miserable" and
malade "ill."
Mingre is itself a blend of
maigre "meager" +
haingre "sick, haggard," possibly from Gmc. (cf. M.H.G.
hager "thin"). The sense evolution may be through notion of beggars with sham sores.
2. From French malingrer, from adjective malingre (“delicate, fragile”). See: French '
malingrer'.
Sample Sentences
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It is not uncommon on exam days for several students to malinger rather than prepare themselves.
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And the afternoon, the evening, sleeps so peacefully! / Smoothed by long fingers, / Asleep … tired … or it malingers, / Stretched on the floor, here beside you and me. [1915 June, T[homas] S[tearns] Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, in Prufrock and Other Observations, London: The Egoist […], published 1917, →OCLC, page 13:]
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It has been the impression of past investigators that persons who malinger psychosis have latent tendencies for the condition. [1984, The Psychiatric Quarterly, volume 56:]