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languish   (TTS Sound)

The verb languish has 3 senses

• pine away, waste, languish -- (lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief; "After her husband died, she just pined away")


• ache, yearn, yen, pine, languish -- (have a desire for something or someone who is not present; "She ached for a cigarette"; "I am pining for my lover")


• languish, fade -- (become feeble; "The prisoner has be languishing for years in the dungeon")