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LANGUISHED
Verb
languished
simple past tense and past participle of languish
Source: Wiktionary
LANGUISH
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
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