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languishing
[
lang
-gwi-shing
]
Example Sentences
lan·guish·ing
/
ˈlæŋ
gwɪ
ʃɪŋ
/
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[
lang
-gwi-shing
]
Show IPA
adjective
1.
becoming languid, in any way.
2.
expressive of languor; indicating tender, sentimental
melancholy
:
a languishing sigh.
3.
lingering:
a languishing death.
Origin:
1300–50;
Middle English;
see
languish
,
-ing
2
Related forms
lan·guish·ing·ly,
adverb
half-lan·guish·ing,
adjective
un·lan·guish·ing,
adjective
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Example Sentences
Five years after the end of the war they are still
languishing
in camps.
The flip side of living in a tropical paradise is
languishing
on a tropical island you can't escape.
Still, many apartments are
languishing
on the market.
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Five years after the end of the war they are still
languishing
in camps.
The flip side of living in a tropical paradise is
languishing
on a tropical island you can't escape.
Still, many apartments are
languishing
on the market.
The figures were stronger than expected and helped to lift the yen, which had been
languishing
.
Trading volumes were
languishing
and companies were rushing to delist.
Even worse, workers who never went to college in the first place,
languishing
in their careers for lack of a college credential.
Many of them are
languishing
in the reserve collections of western museums.
And in the midst of this midterm grading, even my
languishing
research is sounding mighty fun again.
All my pre-digital shots are
languishing
in dusty old albums, slowly falling to pieces.
Others such as business services and communications are
languishing
.
COLLAPSE
Dictionary.com Unabridged
lan·guish
/
ˈlæŋ
gwɪʃ
/
Show Spelled
[
lang
-gwish
]
Show IPA
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.
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6.
to assume an
expression
of tender, sentimental
melancholy
.
COLLAPSE
noun
7.
the act or state of
languishing.
8.
a tender, melancholy look or expression.
Origin:
1250–1300;
Middle English
<
Middle French
languiss-,
long stem of
languir
≪
Latin
languēre
to languish; akin to
laxus
lax
;
see
-ish
2
Related forms
lan·guish·er,
noun
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2012.
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World English Dictionary
languish
(ˈlæŋɡwɪʃ)
—
vb
1.
to lose or diminish in strength or energy
2.
(
often foll by
for
) to be listless with desire; pine
3.
to suffer deprivation, hardship, or neglect:
to languish in prison
4.
to put on a tender, nostalgic, or melancholic expression
[C14
languishen,
from Old French
languiss-,
stem of
languir,
ultimately from Latin
languēre
]
'languishing
—
adj
'languishingly
—
adv
'languishment
—
n
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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"Were a stranger to drop on a sudden into this world, I would shew him, as a specimen of its ills, an hospital full of diseases, a prison crowded with malefactors and debtors, a field of battle strewed with carcases, a fleet foundering in the ocean, a nation
languishing
under tyranny, famine, or pestilence. To turn the gay side of life to him and give him a notion of its pleasures; whither should I conduct him? to a ball, to an opera, to court? He might justly think, that I was only shewing him a diversity of distress and sorrow."
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