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Definitions for: Languish [v] become feeble; "The prisoner has be languishing for years in the dungeon"
[v] lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief; "After her husband died, she just pined away"
[v] have a yen for
Webster (1913) Definition: 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.
Lan"guish, v. i.
To cause to droop or pine. [Obs.] --Shak. --Dryden.
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.
Synonyms: ache, fade, long, pine, pine away, waste, yearn, yen
See Also: degenerate, deteriorate, die, drop, miss, weaken
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