languish

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To lose strength and become weak; to be in a state of weakness or sickness.

   “We […] do languish of such diseases.”

2. fiil To pine away in longing for something; to have low spirits, especially from lovesickness.

   “He languished without his girlfriend.”

3. fiil To live in miserable or disheartening conditions.

   “He languished in prison for years.”

4. fiil To be neglected; to make little progress, be unsuccessful.

   “The case languished for years before coming to trial.”

5. fiil To make weak; to weaken, devastate.
6. fiil To affect a languid air, especially disingenuously.

   “He is an excellent young man, and will suit Harriet exactly: it will be an "exactly so," as he says himself; but he does sigh and languish, and study for compliments rather more than I could endure as a principal.”