Languish

[Lan·guish]

To languish is to become pitiful or weak because you're sick, in love, or stuck somewhere. A prisoner might languish in jail, longing for her freedom.

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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.

Verb
become feeble; "The prisoner has be languishing for years in the dungeon"

Verb
lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief; "After her husband died, she just pined away"

Verb
have a desire for something or someone who is not present; "She ached for a cigarette"; "I am pining for my lover"

v. i.
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.

v. i.
To assume an expression of weariness or tender grief, appealing for sympathy.

v. i.
To cause to droop or pine.

n.
See Languishiment.

Languish

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.

Cease, fond nature, cease thy strife, And let me landguish into life.

For the fields of Heshbon languish.

2. To assume an expression of weariness or tender grief, appealing for sympathy. Tennyson. Syn. -- To pine; wither; fade; droop; faint.

Languish

Lan"guish , v. i. To cause to drp or pine. [Obs.] Shak. Dryden.

Languish

Lan"guish, n. See Languishiment. [Obs. or Poetic]

What, of death, too, That rids our dogs of languish ?

And the blue languish of soft Allia's eye.

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.

To cause to drp or pine.

See Languishiment.

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Usage Examples

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

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