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Synonyms for languishes

Grammar : Verb
Spell : lang-gwish
Phonetic Transcription : ˈlæŋ gwɪʃ

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Définition of languishes

Origin :
  • early 14c., "fail in strength, exhibit signs of approaching death," from languiss-, present participle stem of Old French languir "be listless, pine, grieve, fall ill," from Vulgar Latin *languire, from Latin languere "be weak or faint" (see lax). Weaker sense "be lovesick, grieve, lament, grow faint," is from mid-14c. Related: Languished; languishing.
  • verb droop; become dull, listless
Example sentences :
  • The gray atmosphere follows, but the day first languishes in yourself.
  • Extract from : « Suburban Sketches » by William Dean Howells
  • Raimond, of Toulouse, languishes the victim of a pestilential fever.
  • Extract from : « Heroines of the Crusades » by C. A. Bloss
  • Doubtless he now is dead, or languishes in the cell of some State prison.
  • Extract from : « The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 » by Eugne Sue
  • What can be the reason that all flourishes there, and all languishes here?
  • Extract from : « Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men » by Anna Brownell Jameson
  • Somewhere, I am sure, in some dark vault or cellar, it languishes.
  • Extract from : « And Even Now » by Max Beerbohm
  • The child, now unable to cry any more, languishes and is quiet.
  • Extract from : « The Young Mother » by William A. Alcott
  • Bashan languishes, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languishes.
  • Extract from : « The World English Bible (WEB), The Old Testament, Complete » by Various
  • Plenty is at our doorstep, but a generous use of it languishes in the very sight of the supply.
  • Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
  • The public ear has become dainty, fastidious, hypercritical; hence the Ballad-Singer languishes and dies.
  • Extract from : « The History of the Catnach Press » by Charles Hindley
  • Jealousy cannot move her into anger; she languishes in concealed sorrow, when she thinks herself forgotten.
  • Extract from : « The Life of Friedrich Schiller » by Thomas Carlyle

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