to trail behind
121regress — Synonyms and related words: about face, advance, ascend, back, back up, backing, backset, backslide, backsliding, backward motion, backward step, budge, change, change place, circle, climb, cock, come after, come last, degenerate, descend,… …
122retrogress — Synonyms and related words: advance, ascend, back, back up, backslide, budge, change, change place, circle, climb, cock, come after, come last, degenerate, descend, deteriorate, disimprove, ebb, fall astern, fall back, fall behind, flow, follow,… …
123revert — Synonyms and related words: back, back up, backslide, cock, come after, come again, come back, come last, come up again, cry back to, echo, fall, fall again into, fall astern, fall back, fall behind, fall from grace, follow, get behind, go back,… …
124dawdle — Synonyms and related words: abide, await, bide, bide the issue, clock watcher, continue, dallier, dally, dawdler, delay, diddle, diddler, dillydallier, dillydally, do nothing, dolittle, doodle, doodler, drag, drag out, draw out, drone, dwell on,… …
125hang back — Synonyms and related words: avoid, back down, balance, be dilatory, blench, blink, boggle, cringe, dawdle, debate, deliberate, demur, dodge, drag, draw back, duck, evade, fade, fall back, fall behind, falter, fear, fight shy of, filibuster,… …
126lag — Synonyms and related words: afterthought, antedate, arrest, be found wanting, bind, block, blockage, bureaucratic delay, cast out, check, closing, collapse, come short, con, concluding, confine, dalliance, dally, dallying, dawdle, dawdling, dead… …
127linger — Synonyms and related words: abide, amble, await, bide, bide the issue, carry on, cease not, continue, crawl, creep, dally, dawdle, delay, diddle, dillydally, dither, doodle, drag, drag along, drag on, drift, dwell on, elaborate, endure, fall… …
128loiter — Synonyms and related words: abide, await, bide, bide the issue, bum, bum around, coquet, dabble, dally, dawdle, delay, diddle, dillydally, do nothing, doodle, drag, fall behind, falter, fiddle, fiddle with, fiddle faddle, fidget with, finger with …
