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Languish

Languish Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Languish?
[v] become feeble; "The prisoner has be languishing for years in the dungeon"
[v] lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief; "After her husband died, she just pined away" [v] have a yen for Synonyms | Synonyms for Languish: ache | fade | long | pine | pine away | waste | yearn | yen Related Terms | Find terms related to Languish: abate | ablate | bate | be eaten away | become suicidal | break | cave in | collapse | come apart | come unstuck | conk out | consume | consume away | corrode | crumble | decline | decrease | deliquesce | desiccate | despair | despond | deteriorate | die away | diminish | disintegrate | dive | droop | drop | drop off | dry up | dwindle | ebb | erode | fade | fade away | fail | faint | fall | fall away | fall off | fizzle out | flag | give out | give way | go downhill | go soft | go to pieces | hit rock bottom | hit the skids | lessen | let up | lose heart | lose strength | melt away | peak | peg out | peter out | pine | plumb the depths | plummet | plunge | poop out | reach the depths | run down | run low | sag | sear | shrink | shrivel | sink | subside | tail off | touch bottom | wane | waste | waste away | weaken | wear | wear away | wear thin | wilt | wither | wither away | wizen | yield See Also | degenerate | deteriorate | die | drop | miss | weaken Languish In Webster's Dictionary \Lan"guish\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Languished}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Languishing}.] [OE. languishen, languissen, F.
languir, L. languere; cf. Gr. ? to slacken, ? slack, Icel.
lakra to lag behind; prob. akin to E. lag, lax, and perh. to
E. slack.See {-ish}.]
1. To become languid or weak; to lose strength or animation;
to be or become dull, feeble or spiritless; to pine away;
to wither or fade.
We . . . do languish of such diseases. --2 Esdras
viii. 31.
Cease, fond nature, cease thy strife, And let me
landguish into life. --Pope.
For the fields of Heshbon languish. --Is. xvi. 8.
2. To assume an expression of weariness or tender grief,
appealing for sympathy. --Tennyson.
Syn: To pine; wither; fade; droop; faint.
\Lan"guish\, v. i. To cause to droop or pine. [Obs.] --Shak. --Dryden. \Lan"guish\, n. See {Languishiment}. [Obs. or Poetic] What, of death, too, That rids our dogs of languish ? --Shak. And the blue languish of soft Allia's eye. --Pope. |
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