Thesaurus: languish

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1. v. i. 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.
2. v. i. To assume an expression of weariness or tender grief, appealing for sympathy.
3. v. i. To cause to droop or pine.
4. n. See Languishiment.
5. v. lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
6. v. have a desire for something or someone who is not present
7. v. become feeble
8. 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. To cause to dr [Obs.] Shak. Dryden. 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.
9. To cause to dr [Obs.] Shak. Dryden.