0 to exist in an unpleasant or unwanted situation, often for a long time:
1 to exist in an unpleasant or unwanted situation, often for a long time:
Members of Congress have introduced plans, but those have languished.
2 to be weak or fail to improve:
Traditional industries continue to languish or disappear.
Unlike the unfortunate victims of disease, who languished in the stations' isolation hospitals, healthy detainees were often burdened by boredom and frustration.
This 'hard core' kept their mouths closed, and languished for years in detention.
Separated from one another, the lovers languish, but are eventually reunited by servants, their love restored and wiser.
He regrets that meanwhile he himself languishes unprofitably and in listless ease.
It seems necessary to repeat this truism quite frequently - and not merely for the benefit of those languishing in ignorance outside the academy.
The urban areas languished, however, with rising prices and limited employment opportunities stirring discontent.
Without a proper support system in nature and culture, however, human potential would languish.
Despite these significant contributions, he has languished in obscurity.
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受苦,經歷苦難,受煎熬…
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languidecer, pudrirse, consumirse…
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languescer, padecer, apodrecer…
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(se) languir…
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ochabovat, chřadnout…
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sygne hen…
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makin lemah, merana…
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