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English Dictionary: languish	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for languish
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
languish v lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief; "After her husband died, she just pined away" Synonym(s): pine away, waste, languish have a desire for something or someone who is not present; "She ached for a cigarette"; "I am pining for my lover" Synonym(s): ache, yearn, yen, pine, languish become feeble; "The prisoner has be languishing for years in the dungeon" Synonym(s): languish, fade
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Languish \Lan"guish\, v. i. To cause to droop or pine. [Obs.] --Shak. --Dryden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.