0 present participle of languish
1 to exist in an unpleasant or unwanted situation, often for a long time:
Her hair, her loose clothes, and her languishing posture all contribute to this characterization.
It seems necessary to repeat this truism quite frequently - and not merely for the benefit of those languishing in ignorance outside the academy.
This + marked once more by a languishing dominant ninth + occurs in the midst of the most passionate passage, but is again a moment of 'doubt'.
Sofas functioned ideologically as the opposite of manufactories and of the men who labored at machines; they positioned white, elite, and middle-class women as languishing non-laborers.
Again, during the 1960s and 1970s we were languishing near the bottom of those leagues.
Those people are still languishing in prison, labour camps, in exile and in psychiatric hospitals because of their religious activities.
He had to deal with an industry which had been languishing, and which had become disheartened.
These values could, however, end up being diluted in rhetoric and languishing if we do not move from words to actions.
