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单词 languish
释义 languish
 —languisher,  n.  
 /lang"gwish/,  v.i.  
  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: to languish in prison for ten years.
  4. to be subjected to delay or disregard; be ignored: a petition that languished on the warden's desk for a year.
  5. to pine with desire or longing.
  6. to assume an expression of tender, sentimental melancholy.
  n.  
  7. the act or state of languishing.
  8. a tender, melancholy look or expression.
 [1250-1300; ME < MF languiss-, long s. of languir << L languere to languish; akin to laxus LAX; see -ISH2]
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