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languish |
4 definitions found 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: languish v 1: lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief; "After her husband died, she just pined away" [syn: {pine away}, {waste}] 2: have a yen for [syn: {long}, {ache}, {yearn}, {yen}, {pine}] 3: become feeble [syn: {fade}]
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