| 单词 | languish |
| 释义 | languish (once / 1120 pages) 1v 2v To languish is to become pitiful or weak because you're sick, in love, or stuck somewhere. A prisoner might languish in jail, longing for her freedom. Languish, like languid, is from the Latin word languere which means to "be weak or faint." Your houseplants might languish in a dark dry corner. A Romantic poet might languish on a velvet couch with the back of her hand to her forehead. People in operas love to languish: The main character in La Traviatta, Violetta, languishes from longing and eventually tuberculosis. WORD FAMILYlanguish: languished, languisher, languishes, languishing USAGE EXAMPLESMeanwhile, overall spending on building new factories or upgrading aging equipment languished. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) The site is one of many languishing after the real estate bust. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) The project languished until 2005 as interest in renewable energy projects grew. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) 1 1v become feeble The prisoner has be languishing for years in the dungeon Syn|Hyper fade degenerate, deteriorate, devolve, drop grow worse 2v lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief 2Syn|Hyper pine away, waste weaken become weaker v have a desire for something or someone who is not present Syn|Hypo|Hyper ache, pine, yearn, yen die languish as with love or desire hanker, long, yearn desire strongly or persistently |
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