languish

Verb
  1. Lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief (synset 200390663)
    "After her husband died, she just pined away"
    is a type of: weaken - become weaker
    same as: pine away, waste
  2. Have a desire for something or someone who is not present (synset 201809651)
    "She ached for a cigarette"; "I am pining for my lover"
    is a type of: hanker, long, yearn - desire strongly or persistently
    subtypes: die - languish as with love or desire
    same as: ache, pine, yearn, yen
  3. Become feeble (synset 200093345)
    "The prisoner has been languishing for years in the dungeon"
    is a type of: degenerate, deteriorate, devolve, drop - grow worse
    same as: fade

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