languish
verb (used without object)
noun
Origin of languish
Related Words for languish
dwindle, faint, wither, deteriorate, fail, suffer, rot, weaken, despond, ebb, hunger, sigh, yearn, pine, decline, brood, repine, long, fade, wasteExamples from the Web for languish
Contemporary Examples of languish
Common sense, uncontroversial ideas tend to languish when attention has moved elsewhere.
Some of the authors most revered by their contemporaries now languish in relative obscurity.
Critical journalists continue to languish in prison and inside the courtrooms the breadth of the clampdown is on full display.
They see people just like them being elevated quickly to power while they languish, and they become envious.
They will be abandoned to languish and rot in “gulags” in Russia.
Historical Examples of languish
No, Plautus did not allow his public to languish for want of noise.
The Dramatic Values in PlautusWilton Wallace Blancke
He regards them as vermin to be left to languish and die of their festering wounds.
Captain BloodRafael Sabatini
Supposing a frog were to come along and languish for my kind of legs.
The Adventures of Maya the BeeWaldemar Bonsels
They are brought from Shanghai, and, as a rule, they languish and die in a few months.
The Philippine IslandsJohn Foreman
It will languish and perish in the dry sunlight of open discussion.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social JusticeStephen Leacock