verb Download 🔗Share To feign illness, injury, or incapacitation in order to avoid work, obligation, or perilous risk. Examples : "It is not uncommon on exam days for several students to malinger rather than prepare themselves." action human attitude work job condition negative tendency moral society Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To self-inflict real injury or infection (to inflict self-harm) in order to avoid work, obligation, or perilous risk. Examples : "The student malingers, pretending to have a stomach ache every Monday morning to avoid taking the weekly math quiz. " medicine mind action work job human person military condition Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading