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LANGUISHING
Adjective
languishing
lacking of vigor or spirit.
Verb
languishing
present participle of languish
Noun
languishing (plural languishings)
The act of one who languishes.
Source: Wiktionary
Lan"guish*ing, a.
1. Becoming languid and weak; pining; losing health and strength.
2. Amorously pensive; as, languishing eyes, or look.
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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