languish, fade
(verb) become feeble; “The prisoner has been languishing for years in the dungeon”
ache, yearn, yen, pine, languish
(verb) have a desire for something or someone who is not present; “She ached for a cigarette”; “I am pining for my lover”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
languish (third-person singular simple present languishes, present participle languishing, simple past and past participle languished)
(intransitive) To lose strength and become weak; to be in a state of weakness or sickness. [from 14th c.]
(intransitive) To pine away in longing for something; to have low spirits, especially from lovesickness. [from 14th c.]
(intransitive) To live in miserable or disheartening conditions. [from 15th c.]
(intransitive) To be neglected; to make little progress, be unsuccessful. [from 17th c.]
(transitive, obsolete) To make weak; to weaken, devastate. [15th-17th c.]
(intransitive, now rare) To affect a languid air, especially disingenuously. [from 18th c.]
• haulings, haulsing, nilghaus
Source: Wiktionary
Lan"guish, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Languished; p. pr. & vb. n. Languishing.] Etym: [OE. languishen, languissen, F. languir, L. languere; cf. Gr. lakra to lag behind; prob. akin to E. lag, lax, and perh. to E. slack.See -ish.]
1. To become languid or weak; to lose strength or animation; to be or become dull, feeble or spiritless; to pine away; to wither or fade. We . . . do languish of such diseases. 2 Esdras viii. 31. Cease, fond nature, cease thy strife, And let me landguish into life. Pope. For the fields of Heshbon languish. Is. xvi. 8.
2. To assume an expression of weariness or tender grief, appealing for sympathy. Tennyson.
Syn.
– To pine; wither; fade; droop; faint.
Lan"guish, v. i.
Definition: To cause to dr [Obs.] Shak. Dryden.
Lan"guish, n.
Definition: See Languishiment. [Obs. or Poetic] What, of death, too, That rids our dogs of languish Shak. And the blue languish of soft Allia's eye. Pope.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
28 May 2025
(noun) a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing; “an air of mystery”; “the house had a neglected air”; “an atmosphere of defeat pervaded the candidate’s headquarters”; “the place had an aura of romance”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
