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Verb dally has 4 senses
- dally, toy, play, flirt - behave carelessly or indifferently; "Play about with a young girl's affection"
--1 is one way to act, move
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
- dally, dawdle - waste time; "Get busy--don't dally!"
--2 is one way to act, behave, do
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
- chat up, flirt, dally, butterfly, coquet, coquette, romance, philander, mash - talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions; "The guys always try to chat up the new secretaries"; "My husband never flirts with other women"
--3 is one way to talk, speak
Sample sentence:
Sam wants to dally with Sue
- dally, trifle, play - consider not very seriously; "He is trifling with her"; "She plays with the thought of moving to Tasmania"
--4 is one way to consider, take, deal, look at
Sample sentence:
Sam wants to dally with Sue
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