Thesaurus / languish
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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
- bed down
- bunk
- catch a wink
- catch forty winks
- catnap
- conk out
- cop some z's
- crash
- doze
- dream
- drop off
- drowse
- fall asleep
- fall out
- flop
- hibernate
- hit the hay
- hit the sack
- languish
- nap
- nod
- nod off
- oversleep
- relax
- repose
- rest
- retire
- sack out
- saw wood
- slumber
- snooze
- snore
- take a nap
- turn in
- yawn
- zonk out
- zzz
- bed down
- bunked
- catnapped
- caught a wink
- caught forty winks
- conk out
- copped some zwas
- crashed
- dozed
- dreamed
- dropped off
- drowsed
- fell asleep
- fell out
- flopped
- hibernated
- hit the hay
- hit the sack
- languished
- napped
- nodded
- nodded off
- overslept
- relaxed
- reposed
- rested
- retired
- sacked out
- saw wood
- slumbered
- snoozed
- snored
- took a nap
- turned in
- yawned
- zonked out
- zzzed
- ached
- agonized
- ailed
- be affected
- be convulsed
- be handicapped
- be racked
- be wounded
- braved
- complained of
- deteriorated
- drooped
- endured
- experienced
- fell off
- felt wretched
- flagged
- got
- grieved
- had a bad time
- hurt
- languished
- pained
- sickened
- smarted
- underwent
- was at disadvantage
- was impaired
- went through
- writhed
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