indugiarsi

Italian

Verb

indugiàrsi (first-person singular present mi indùgio, first-person singular past historic mi indugiài, past participle indugiàtosi)

  1. reflexive of indugiare
  2. to loiter or linger
    indugiarsi presso la stufato stay near the stove
  3. to continue (to); to keep (doing) [with a (+ infinitive)]
    s'era indugiato a leggerehe kept reading[1]
  4. (literary) to persist

Conjugation

References

  1. ^ can also be read more strongly as "he was glued to his books."