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.
- 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.