Languish /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Languished; p. pr. & vb. n. Languishing

1. To become languid or weak; to lose strength or animation; to be or become dull, feeble or spiritless; to pine away; to linger in a weak or deteriorating condition; to wither or fade.

   We . . . do languish of such diseases.

   Cease, fond nature, cease thy strife, And let me languish into life.

   For the fields of Heshbon languish.

2. To assume an expression of weariness or tender grief, appealing for sympathy.
3. To be neglected and unattended to; as, the proposal languished on the director's desk for months.

1. To cause to droop or pine. [Obs.]

1. See Languishment. [Obs. or Poetic]

   What, of death, too, That rids our dogs of languish?

   And the blue languish of soft Allia's eye.