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lan⋅guish
[lang-gwish]
–verb (used without object)
| 1. | to be or become weak or feeble; droop; fade. |
| 2. | to lose vigor and vitality. |
| 3. | to undergo neglect or experience prolonged inactivity; suffer hardship and distress: to languish in prison for ten years. |
| 4. | to be subjected to delay or disregard; be ignored: a petition that languished on the warden's desk for a year. |
| 5. | to pine with desire or longing. |
| 6. | to assume an expression of tender, sentimental melancholy. |
–noun
| 7. | the act or state of languishing. |
| 8. | a tender, melancholy look or expression. |
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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 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 Heshbon languish. --Is. xvi. 8. 2. To assume an expression of weariness or tender grief, appealing for sympathy. --Tennyson. Syn: To pine; wither; fade; droop; faint.Languish
Lan"guish\, v. i. To cause to droop or pine. [Obs.] --Shak. --Dryden.Languish
Lan"guish\, n. See Languishiment. [Obs. 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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Language Translation for : languish
Spanish:
languidecer, consumirse,
German:
ermatten,
Japanese:
弱る
languish
c.1300, from languiss-, pp. stem of O.Fr. languir "be listless," from V.L. *languire, from L. languere "be weak or faint" (see lax).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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