Thesaurus / languish
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synonyms for languish
- deteriorate
- dwindle
- fail
- faint
- rot
- suffer
- weaken
- wither
- brood
- decline
- desire
- despond
- ebb
- fade
- fag
- flag
- grieve
- hanker
- hunger
- long
- pine
- repine
- sicken
- sigh
- snivel
- sorrow
- tucker
- waste
- wilt
- yearn
- be disregarded
- be neglected
- conk out
- die on vine
- fag out
- fizzle out
- go soft
- go to pieces
- knock out
- waste away
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If one could languish through life in the shell of a mere beauty that life would be a good deal simpler proposition than it is.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTONIf a man be poor who wishes to have everything, then an ambitious and a miserly man languish in extreme poverty.
THE 'CHARACTERS' OF JEAN DE LA BRUYREJEAN DE LA BRUYREYou who will not wish to see her languish—suffer—go mad—Thomas, I am not the raving being you take me for.
THE CIRCULAR STUDYANNA KATHARINE GREENTheir kings are without power and without glory; their subjects languish in indigence and wretchedness.
LETTERS TO EUGENIAPAUL HENRI THIRY HOLBACHShe would be left to languish and die in some awful Moorish prison.
FIFTY-TWO STORIES FOR GIRLSVARIOUSIt did not die at once, but it speedily began to languish, and two centuries later was practically extinct.
THE CORNWALL COASTARTHUR L. SALMONHere I languish while some of the Macys swim in the surf and others of them hold up a hand at whist.
MARJORIE DEAN COLLEGE FRESHMANPAULINE LESTERI languish, I own,' cried she, 'to see that frozen youth worked up into a little sensibility.
CAMILLAFANNY BURNEYThe Indians sometimes bring down troupiales to Stabroek, but in a few months they languish and die in a cage.
WANDERINGS IN SOUTH AMERICACHARLES WATERTONOverbury is aware that he has been betrayed and entrapped, and is left by his treacherous patron to languish in a dungeon.
BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY, VOLUME IIVARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO LANGUISH
- ate one's heart out
- bled
- chafed inwardly
- considered
- daydreamed
- deliberated
- desponded
- dreamed
- dwelt upon
- fretted
- gloomed
- grieved
- lamented
- languished
- meditated
- moped
- mull over
- mused
- pondered
- reflected
- repined
- ruminated
- sighed
- speculated
- stew over
- sulked
- sweated out
- sweated over
- thought about
- thought upon
- was in brown study
- worried
- abate
- backslide
- cheapen
- decay
- decrease
- degenerate
- depreciate
- deteriorate
- diminish
- disimprove
- disintegrate
- droop
- drop
- dwindle
- ebb
- fade
- fail
- fall
- fall off
- flag
- go downhill
- go to pot
- go to the dogs
- hit the skids
- languish
- lapse
- lose value
- lower
- pine
- recede
- relapse
- retrograde
- return
- revert
- rot
- sag
- settle
- shrink
- sink
- slide
- subside
- wane
- weaken
- worsen
- adulterate
- alloy
- be worse for wear
- become worse
- break
- corrode
- corrupt
- crumble
- debase
- debilitate
- decline
- decompose
- degrade
- deprave
- depreciate
- descend
- disimprove
- disintegrate
- ebb
- fade
- fail
- fall apart
- flag
- go downhill
- go to pieces
- go to pot
- go to the dogs
- hit the skids
- impair
- injure
- languish
- lapse
- lessen
- lose it
- lose quality
- lower
- mar
- pervert
- regress
- retrograde
- retrogress
- rot
- sink
- skid
- slide
- spoil
- undermine
- vitiate
- weaken
- wear away
- worsen
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