languish
verb (used without object)
to be or become weak or feeble; droop; fade.
am languishing
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present progressiveof languish (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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And 'I am languishing for the pressure of your ivory arms about my neck and the sweep of your silken hair against my cheek!'
From A Man of Means by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
Beholding thy body, O most valiant of men, bathed in blood, like a hill overrun with water from its springs, I am languishing with grief even as the lotus in the rainy season.
From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 by Kisari Mohan Ganguli
Why the stern brow deceitful move, When I am languishing with love?
From The Poetical Works of Henry Kirk White : With a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas by Henry Kirk White
Meanwhile I am languishing for Catriona—and the weeks follow and I must live without you.
From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by Henry James
"I am languishing for that moment," he wrote six months before to Heinsius.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5 by Robert Black
