languish
Meaning of languish
verb
- To lose strength and become weak; to be in a state of weakness or sickness.
- To pine away in longing for something; to have low spirits, especially from lovesickness.
He languished without his girlfriend
- To live in miserable or disheartening conditions.
He languished in prison for years
- To be neglected; to make little progress, be unsuccessful.
The case languished for years before coming to trial.
- To make weak; to weaken, devastate.
- To affect a languid air, especially disingenuously.
Information about languish
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Hyphenation of languish
lan-guish
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- languish is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
languish synonyms
Meaning pine away:
Meaning ache:
Meaning fade:
Anagrams of languish
Words that rhyme with languish
beauish, cuish, aguish, anguish, broguish, cataloguish, contradistinguish, counterdistinguish, distinguish, enanguish, extinguish, interdistinguish, misdistinguish, pedagoguish, predistinguish, preextinguish, redistinguish, roguish, subdistinguish, undistinguish, vaguish, voguish, bluish, gluish, cliquish, derelinquish, linquish, mosquish, picturesquish, relinquish, squish, vanquish, vinquish, truish
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