1. Lose vigour, health, or flesh, as through grief
   - pine away, waste 
2. Have a desire for something or someone who is not present
   - ache, yearn, yen, pine 
3. Become feeble
   "The prisoner has been languishing for years in the dungeon"
   - fade

Derived forms: languishes, languishing, languished

See also: languisher

Type of: degenerate, deteriorate, devolve, drop, hanker, long, weaken, yearn

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