Definitions for languish

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languish lan·guish

Spelling: [lang-gwish]

IPA: /ˈlæŋ gwɪʃ/

Languish is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 324 anagrams from letters in languish (aghilnsu).

Definitions for languish

noun

1. the act or state of languishing.
2. a tender, melancholy look or expression.

verb (used without object)

1. to be or become weak or feeble; droop; fade.
2. to lose vigor and vitality.
3. to undergo neglect or experience prolonged inactivity; suffer hardship and distress:
4. to be subjected to delay or disregard; be ignored:
5. to pine with desire or longing.
6. to assume an expression of tender, sentimental melancholy.

Origin of languish

1250-1300; Middle English Middle French languiss-, long stem of languir ≪ Latin languēre to languish; akin to laxus lax; see -ish²

Examples for languish

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.

Common sense, uncontroversial ideas tend to languish when attention has moved elsewhere.

No, Plautus did not allow his public to languish for want of noise.

He regards them as vermin to be left to languish and die of their festering wounds.

Supposing a frog were to come along and languish for my kind of legs.

They will be abandoned to languish and rot in “gulags” in Russia.

Some of the authors most revered by their contemporaries now languish in relative obscurity.

It will languish and perish in the dry sunlight of open discussion.

They are brought from Shanghai, and, as a rule, they languish and die in a few months.