Synonyms for languish
ˈlæŋ gwɪʃlan·guish

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1. languish

   Synonyms:
   pine, droop, sink, faint, wither, sigh, decline

   Antonyms:
   flourish, luxuriate, bloom, prosper, thrive

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1. pine away, waste, languishverb

   lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief

   "After her husband died, she just pined away"

   Synonyms:
   waste, run off, emaciate, ache, blow, scourge, neutralise, devastate, yen, ravage, pine, neutralize, desolate, yearn, consume, macerate, ware, liquidate, squander, pine away, do in, rot, fade, knock off, lay waste to

2. ache, yearn, yen, pine, languishverb

   have a desire for something or someone who is not present

   "She ached for a cigarette"; "I am pining for my lover"

   Synonyms:
   smart, hurt, fade, pine away, yearn, long, ache, suffer, pine, hanker, waste, yen

3. languish, fadeverb

   become feeble

   "The prisoner has be languishing for years in the dungeon"

   Synonyms:
   yearn, waste, evanesce, fade, pine away, ache, fleet, pine, pass off, blow over, wither, melt, pass, yen

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1. languishverb

   Synonyms:
   droop, pine, faint, fade, wither, decline, fall, become feeble, pine away, waste away

2. languishverb

   Synonyms:
   look tender, have the air of a lover

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1. List of paraphrases for "languish":

   wilt, tease

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How to use languish in a sentence?

1. Sheriff Brad Swain:

   There was grazing ability outside the barn. However, they were left to languish within their stalls from what it appears to be.

2. Natasha Alexenko:

   The thought of even being in the same room as those people gives me goose bumps. I'd burst into tears of gratitude, how can you begin to say thank you for that? And what an insult to that ingenuity that we're just letting these kits languish.

3. Fyodor Urnov:

   To have something this astonishingly curative languish because the marketplace isn’t configured to deliver curative therapies for rare diseases – it’s just an enormous stain.

4. Ritchie Torres:

   We can let children languish in povertythat's going to haunt them for the rest of their lives orwe can give them a fighting chance, i prefer the latter, but that's a value judgment.

5. Pete Mercurio:

   She was able to make quick decisions to place that baby in a pre-adoptive home as quickly as possible, so he didn't languish in the system.