languish
IPA: ɫˈæŋgwɪʃ
verb
- (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.
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Examples of "languish" in Sentences
- She continued to languish.
- The paper continued to languish.
- The manual list tends to languish.
- That apart, Dumbarton largely languished in the doldrums.
- He was left to languish in the tower of London until 1616.
- The tests scores have been languishing in the abyss for years.
- It did the cause no good for him to languish in the enemy's prison.
- Even if most of the copies languish in boxes, the work was published.
- Last attempts to enact federal protections for voting have languished.
- Our heroic boys and girls still languish in the prisons of the tyrant.
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