linger

verb3

1. •
   To stay or remain in a place or situation, especially as if unwilling to depart or not easily able to do so.

   • Still more foole I shall appeare / By the time I linger here — 1596
2. •
   To consider or contemplate for a period of time; to engage in analytic thinking or discussion.

   • Trump doesn't linger on the poll. — 2011
3. •
   To remain alive or existent although still proceeding toward death or extinction; to die gradually.

   • He lingered through the day, and died that evening as the sun went down. — 1887