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Striding vs Dawdling - What's the difference?

striding | dawdling |

As verbs the difference between striding and dawdling

is that striding is while dawdling is .

As nouns the difference between striding and dawdling

is that striding is the act of one who strides; a long step while dawdling is the act of one who dawdles.

striding

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who strides; a long step.
  • * 1804 , Thomas Brown, Poems (page 191)
    • How broad, amid those pines, the torch-flame red / Flings its dark flashes; and those steps, that fall, / Heavy, and slow, no voice amid their call, / Sound, like the giant-stridings of the dead!

    dawdling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who dawdles.
  • * 1839 , The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal
    • Buckingham might have mimicked the pedantry of his manners, and Coventry have complained of his interminable dawdlings and delays.

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