Look up: languish

1. languish
   [Verb] To be left to suffer in an unpleasant situation for a while.
   Example: The prisoner was left to languish in a dark and dirty cell.
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2. languish
   [v] - become feeble
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3. Languish
   Lan'guish intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Languished ; present participle & verbal noun Languishing .] [ Middle English languishen , languissen , French l...
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4. Languish
   Lan'guish intransitive verb To cause to droop or pine. [ Obsolete] Shak. Dryden.
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5. Languish
   Lan'guish noun See Languishment . [ Obsolete or Poetic] « What, of death, too, That rids our dogs of languish ?» Shak. « And the blue languish of soft Allia's eye.» Pope.
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6. languish
   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.' (2 Esdras viii. 31) 'Cease, fond nature, cease thy strife, And let me landguish into life.' (Pope) 'For the fields of Hes...
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7. languish
   fade verb become feeble; `The prisoner has be languishing for years in the dungeon`
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8. Languish
   • (v. i.) To cause to droop or pine. • (n.) See Languishiment. • (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.
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