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lan·guish  (lnggwsh)

intr.v. lan·guished, lan·guish·ing, lan·guish·es

1. To be or become weak or feeble; lose strength or vigor.

2. To exist or continue in miserable or disheartening conditions: languished away in prison.

3. To remain unattended or be neglected: legislation that continued to languish in committee.

4. To become downcast or pine away in longing: languish apart from friends and family; languish for a change from dull routine.

5. To affect a wistful or languid air, especially in order to gain sympathy.

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[Middle English languishen, from Old French languir, languiss-, from Latin langure, to be languid; see slg- in Indo-European roots.]

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languish·er n.

languish·ing·ly adv.

languish·ment n.

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languish [ˈlæŋgwɪʃ]

vb (intr)

1. to lose or diminish in strength or energy

2. (often foll by for) to be listless with desire; pine

3. to suffer deprivation, hardship, or neglect to languish in prison

4. to put on a tender, nostalgic, or melancholic expression

[C14 languishen, from Old French languiss-, stem of languir, ultimately from Latin languēre]

languishing  adj

languishingly  adv

languishment  n

Thesaurus

Verb	1.	languish - lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief; "After her husband died, she just pined away" pine away, waste weaken - become weaker; "The prisoner's resistance weakened after seven days"
	2.	languish - have a desire for something or someone who is not present; "She ached for a cigarette"; "I am pining for my lover" pine, yen, ache, yearn die - languish as with love or desire; "She dying for a cigarette"; "I was dying to leave" hanker, long, yearn - desire strongly or persistently
	3.	languish - become feeble; "The prisoner has be languishing for years in the dungeon" fade degenerate, deteriorate, devolve, drop - grow worse; "Her condition deteriorated"; "Conditions in the slums degenerated"; "The discussion devolved into a shouting match"

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languish

verb

1. decline, waste away, fade away, wither away, flag, weaken, wilt, sicken He continues to languish in prison.
decline thrive, flourish, bloom, prosper

2. (Literary) waste away, suffer, rot, be abandoned, be neglected, be disregarded New products languish on the drawing board.
waste away thrive, flourish, bloom, prosper

3. (often with for) pine, want, long, desire, sigh, hunger, yearn, hanker, eat your heart out over, suspire a bride languishing for a kiss that never comes

Translations

languish [ˈlæŋgwɪʃ] VI

1. (= pine) → languidecer, consumirse

2. (in prison) → pudrirse
the results of her research languished for years before action was taken → los resultados de su investigación cayeron en el olvido durante años antes de que se tomaran medidas
they are languishing at the bottom of the second division → están pasando sus horas más bajas en los últimos puestos de la segunda división

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languish [ˈlæŋgwɪʃ] vi

(in prison, hospital, refugee camp) → croupir
to languish in sth
Still in 1959 there were thousands of people languishing in camps in Europe → En 1959, des milliers de personnes croupissaient encore dans des camps en Europe.
Thousands of patients are being left to languish in hospital beds → On laisse des milliers de patients dépérir sur leur lit d'hôpital.
to languish in jail → croupir en prison
He languished in jail for twenty years → Il a passé vingt ans à croupir en prison.

(= make no progress) [economy, company] → languir; [case] → traîner en longueur
to languish in obscurity (= be unknown) [person] → se morfondre dans l'anonymat

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languish

vi → schmachten; (flowers) → dahinwelken; (= pine) → sich sehnen (for nach); he languished in prison for months → er schmachtete monatelang im Gefängnis; the panda merely languished in its new home → der Panda wurde in seiner neuen Heimat immer apathischer or stumpfer; the child languished during his mother’s absence → das Kind verzehrte sich nach seiner Mutter (geh); the products languish on the shelves → die Waren bleiben in den Regalen liegen; I languish without you, he wrote → ich verzehre mich vor Sehnsucht nach dir, schrieb er

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languish [ˈlæŋgwɪʃ] vi to languish for love/over sb/in prison → languire d'amore/per qn/in prigione

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languish [ˈlæŋgwɪʃ] vi to languish for love/over sb/in prison → languire d'amore/per qn/in prigione

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languish

v languish [ˈlӕŋgwiʃ]

to grow weak; to waste away. wegkwyn, agteruitgaan يَضْعُف، يَفْتُر، يَخْمَل слабея ochabovat; chřadnout sygne hen ermatten ατονώ, λιώνω (μτφ.) languidecer, consumirse raugema بیحال شدن riutua (se)languir לְהֵיחָלֵש कमजोर होना ginuti, sahnuti (el)lankad makin lemah, merana missa þrótt; veslast upp languire 弱る 시들다 keipti, nykti vārgt; nīkuļot menjadi lembap kwijnen dabbe av, vansmekte; synke hen marnieć esmorecer a slăbi, a se ofili слабеть, чахнуть chradnúť pešati oslabiti avmattas, tyna av (bort) อ่อนแรง zayıf düşmek, hâlsiz düşmek 凋落 слабнути; марніти کمزور ہوتا جانا úa tàn; tiều tụy 凋萎