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half-languishing

  • a word derived from languishing.
    languishing
    adjective
    becoming languid, in any way.

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Then see! the nymph in beauteous grief appears, Her eyes half-languishing, half-drown'd in tears; On her heav'd bosom hung her drooping head, Which, with a sigh, she rais'd; and thus she said.

From The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

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