'Languish' definitions:

Definition of 'languish'

(from WordNet)
verb
Lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief; "After her husband died, she just pined away" [syn: pine away, waste, languish]
verb
Have a desire for something or someone who is not present; "She ached for a cigarette"; "I am pining for my lover" [syn: ache, yearn, yen, pine, languish]
verb
Become feeble; "The prisoner has be languishing for years in the dungeon" [syn: languish, fade]

Definition of 'Languish'

From: GCIDE
  • Languish \Lan"guish\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Languished; p. pr. & vb. n. Languishing.] [OE. languishen, languissen, F. languir, L. languere; cf. Gr. ? to slacken, ? slack, Icel. lakra to lag behind; prob. akin to E. lag, lax, and perh. to E. slack. See -ish.]
  • 1. To become languid or weak; to lose strength or animation; to be or become dull, feeble or spiritless; to pine away; to linger in a weak or deteriorating condition; to wither or fade. [1913 Webster]
  • We . . . do languish of such diseases. --2 Esdras viii. 31. [1913 Webster]
  • Cease, fond nature, cease thy strife, And let me languish into life. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
  • For the fields of Heshbon languish. --Is. xvi. 8. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To assume an expression of weariness or tender grief, appealing for sympathy. --Tennyson.
  • 3. To be neglected and unattended to; as, the proposal languished on the director's desk for months. [PJC]
  • Syn: To pine; wither; fade; droop; faint. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Languish'

From: GCIDE
  • Languish \Lan"guish\, v. i. To cause to droop or pine. [Obs.] --Shak. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Languish'

From: GCIDE
  • Languish \Lan"guish\, n. See Languishment. [Obs. or Poetic] [1913 Webster]
  • What, of death, too, That rids our dogs of languish? --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • And the blue languish of soft Allia's eye. --Pope. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'languish'

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Words containing 'Languish'