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Meaning languish meaning

What does languish mean?

languish

— verb (= pine away) lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief After her husband died, she just pined away — verb become feeble The prisoner has be languishing for years in the dungeon — verb (= ache, pine) have a desire for something or someone who is not present She ached for a cigarette I am pining for my lover

Synonyms languish synonyms

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languish English » English

droop wither pine wilt weaken pine away faint fade yearn suffer deteriorate weak waste flag ache yen waste away thirst starve shrivel miss melt long hunger dry out decline be languid attenuate want thirst for thirst after thin thaw scuff rot regret pine for pine after overcome need moan macerate lose vitality listlessness linger lean languish for languidness hanker grow weak/feeble

Conjugation languish conjugation

How do you conjugate languish?

languish · verb

Examples languish examples

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Movie subtitles

He will languish. Really.
How long do you expect to languish?
What thou seest when thou dost wake, do it for thy true love take. Love and languish for his sake.
I was deaf and now I languish.
May your forests be levelled, your highlands cleared of people, all your food fried in yesterday's fat and your country languish eternally under a southern yoke.
It is because of my failure as a warrior that I languish here now.
People languish for years with partners who are clearly from another planet.
Kids just languish in comas, and then they die.
Apparently she married some sailor who hoisted anchor then left her to languish and perish nearly a century ago.
Is he to languish there too?
I hope you have fun playing house with Quinn while you languish in your little ensemble, but my dreams are bigger than that and they're bigger than you.
You see, I believe that you would walk happily to the gallows or languish in a cell for the rest of your life, if you can do it as a martyr to your cause.
The things I 'ave seen from a dark dungeon, where my kind and I were locked up only to languish in the smallest of cells, while wondering if we were to end up on a skewer?
Social Services didn't want the children to languish in foster care.
You will not languish in the Tower.
For disdaining fidelity, I tell you as a prophet, you shall languish forever, as long as this wall stands!
You shall languish forever, as long as this wall stands.
All the members of Tong languish in poverty.
Problem is, it's starting to languish right now and needs jump-starting.
Embrace me, oh, my dearest. Let it be a consolation for so much suffering to languish in sweet affection, to sigh with delight.
It is because of my failure as a warrior that I languish here now. Prisoner to a former slave and his pitiful allies.
Kids just languish in comas and then they die.
Though I do believe you would have made a fine Lady Languish, Miss Cobham.
You must be flattered, you must be admired, or you languish and die away.
Then answer me: how long am I to languish in this tower?
The things I 'ave seen from a dark dungeon, where my kind and I were locked up only to languish in the smallest of cells, while wondering if we were to end up on a skewer? Or perhaps a burgundy sauce?
I know it is not easy to languish here the while.
While his only fucking son is left to languish.
You know what, if God does exist, he's a manipulative bastard that lets human beings drown in tsunamis, perish in tornados, get murdered, and languish in poverty.
Well, I'm not a child, Andrea. And yet you pursue this folly while your legitimate commissions languish.
What I know is good men who served our Queen with their all now languish as reward at Her Majesty's Pleasure.

News and current affairs

Frankfurt and Paris, the most plausible European competitors, languish in tenth and 26th place, respectively.
Meanwhile, Japan continues to languish.
Meanwhile, thousands of young Russians and Ukrainians languish in TB wards or succumb to alcohol and drug addiction.
Most survivors languish in prison.
Europe would not be allowed to languish, and the stimulus came from abroad.
Most of the rest languish in conditions that offer generally dismal prospects.
Most countries with protected economies and lax protection of property rights languish.
With no prospect for a fair trial in the foreseeable future, Qaddafi officials languish in jails.
Remittances from the Gulf States will suffer and its outsourcing business will languish, but hopefully infrastructure investments, of which India has a great backlog, will continue apace.
Refugees languish helplessly in welfare nets, or are suspected of being cheats.
Yes, I should be more diligent.but what is it about those 400 messages that makes them languish in my inbox?
More importantly, how long will it take Europe and America to recover, and can Asia's seemingly export-dependent economies continue to grow if their historical markets languish?
Indonesia's government would undoubtedly prefer to see Ba'asyir languish in jail, but without any legal measure to justify continued detention, it had little option but to release him.

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