languish

languish is a   Verb

Definition:

[1] To become languid or weak; to lose strength or animation; to be or become dull, feeble or spiritless; to pine away; to wither or fade. We . . . do languish of such diseases. 2 Esdras viii. 31. Cease, fond nature, cease thy strife, And let me landguish into life. Pope. For the fields of Heshbon languish. Is. xvi. 8.

[2] To assume an expression of weariness or tender grief, appealing for sympathy. Tennyson.

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