Hypertext Webster Gateway: "languish"
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) 1.7 (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; "The prisoner has be languishing for years in
the dungeon" [syn: {fade}]
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