languish

IPA: ɫˈæŋgwɪʃ

(intransitive) To lose strength and become weak; to be in a state of weakness or sickness.
(intransitive) To pine away in longing for something; to have low spirits, especially from lovesickness.
(intransitive) To live in miserable or disheartening conditions.
(intransitive) To be neglected; to make little progress, be unsuccessful.
(transitive, obsolete) To make weak; to weaken, devastate.
(intransitive, now rare) To affect a languid air, especially disingenuously.

Examples of "languish" in Sentences

If not, he warns, Paris will "languish" like a "cancerous cell unable to grow".
V. ii.42 (250,7) rids our dogs of languish] For _languish_, I think we may read, _anguish_.
This, while nearly three billion human beings subsist (or "languish") on less than $2 a day.
We have seen things like Project Exile really kind of languish under the Clinton-Gore administration.
While cases would "languish" in the Rota, the CDF handled cases "expeditiously, fairly, and with due regard to the rights of all the parties involved."
I was, you know, spending a lot of time -- when you're a stand-up comedian, you have 23 hours of the day to just kind of languish and wait for the gig and do a little writing.
I mean the fact that this has been accomplished in two years time, because John Paul II was put on the fast track, and they put a lot of people on this project but there are plenty of others who kind of languish in obscurity.
Predicting that recent volatility in such flows will continue or even increase, RBS anticipates that the rupee may "languish" in the 46 rupees-47. 50 rupees range over the next three months, with an upside bias for the dollar.