Etymology: [ 'la[ng]-gwish ] (intransitive verb.) 14th century. From the participle stem of Anglo-Norman and Middle French languir, from Late Latin languire, alteration of Latin languēre (“to be faint, unwell”). Compare languor.
Synonyms: be disregarded, be neglected, brood, conk out, decline, desire, despond, deteriorate, die on vine, dwindle, ebb, fade, fag, fag out, fail, faint, fizzle out, flag, go soft
To live in miserable or disheartening conditions, To pine away in longing for something; to have low spirits, especially from lovesickness, To lose strength and become weak; to be in a state of weakness or sickness, To make weak; to weaken, devastate, To be neglected; to make little progress, be unsuccessful, To affect a languid air, especially disingenuously, To lose strength and become weak, weaken, droop, wither; suffer neglect, suffer hardship; pine away, yearn for, long for, To be neglected, To pine away in longing for something, lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief; "After her husband died, she just pined away", have a desire for something or someone who is not present; "She ached for a cigarette"; "I am pining for my lover", To affect a languid air in order to gain sympathy, act of languishing; melancholy gaze, yearning look, If someone languishes somewhere, they are forced to remain and suffer in an unpleasant situation. Pollard continues to languish in prison, become feeble; "The prisoner has be languishing for years in the dungeon", See Languishment, To assume an expression of weariness or tender grief, appealing for sympathy, 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 droop or pine, become feeble; "The prisoner has be languishing for years in the dungeon, If something languishes, it is not successful, often because of a lack of effort or because of a lot of difficulties. Without the founder's drive and direction, the company gradually languished, lacking of vigor or spirit, Present participle of languish, langure, past of languish, third-person singular of languish, languid; weak, drooping; pining, yearning; melancholic, Becoming languid and weak; pining; losing health and strength, Amorously pensive; as, languishing eyes, or look,
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To live in miserable or disheartening conditions - "He languished in prison for years"
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To pine away in longing for something; to have low spirits, especially from lovesickness - "He languished without his girlfriend"
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To lose strength and become weak; to be in a state of weakness or sickness
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To make weak; to weaken, devastate
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To be neglected; to make little progress, be unsuccessful - "The case languished for years before coming to trial."
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To affect a languid air, especially disingenuously - "He is an excellent young man, and will suit Harriet exactly: it will be an "exactly so," as he says himself; but he does sigh and languish, and study for compliments rather more than I could endure as a principal."
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To lose strength and become weak
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weaken, droop, wither; suffer neglect, suffer hardship; pine away, yearn for, long for fiil
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To be neglected
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To pine away in longing for something
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lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief; "After her husband died, she just pined away"
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have a desire for something or someone who is not present; "She ached for a cigarette"; "I am pining for my lover"
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To affect a languid air in order to gain sympathy
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act of languishing; melancholy gaze, yearning look isim
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If someone languishes somewhere, they are forced to remain and suffer in an unpleasant situation. Pollard continues to languish in prison
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become feeble; "The prisoner has be languishing for years in the dungeon"
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See Languishment
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To assume an expression of weariness or tender grief, appealing for sympathy
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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
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To cause to droop or pine
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become feeble; "The prisoner has be languishing for years in the dungeon
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If something languishes, it is not successful, often because of a lack of effort or because of a lot of difficulties. Without the founder's drive and direction, the company gradually languished
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