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30 words match “LANGUISH”

LANGUISH v. 4 definitions

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.

One who languishes.

LANGUISHING a. 2 definitions

Amorously pensive; as, languishing eyes, or look.

LANGUISHINGLY adv.

In a languishing manner.

LANGUISHMENT n. 2 definitions

The state of languishing. " Lingering languishment." Shak.

LANGUISHNESS n.

Languishment. [Obs.]

Waiting for; expectation. [Obs.] Languishing attendance and expectation of death. Hooker.

Further away; at a distance; yonder. Lo, where beyond he lyeth languishing. Spenser.

To become healed. One desperate grief cures with another's languish. Shak.

To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc. His heart died within, and he became as a stone. 1 Sam. xxv. 37. The young men acknowledged, in love letters, that they died for Rebecca. Tatler.

DROOP v. 2 definitions

Tennyson. I saw him ten days before he died, and observed he began very much to droop and languish. Swift.

To waste away; to pine; to languish. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Gower.

The state of dying or the stimulation of such a state; extreme languor; languishment. [R.] Tenderness becomes me best, a sort of dyingness; you see that picture, Foible, -- a swimmingness in the eyes; yes, I'll look so. Congreve.

FALL v. 2 definitions

To sink; to languish; to become feeble or faint; as, our spirits rise and fall with our fortunes.

To droop; to grow spiritless; to lose vigor; to languish; as, the spirits flag; the streugth flags. The pleasures of the town begin to flag. Swift.

ost insensible pricks were found upon Cleopatra's arm. Sir T. Browne. They fall away, And languish with insensible decay. Dryden.

In a languishing manner; pathetically.

To languish. [Obs.] Chaucer.

LOVE-SICK a. 2 definitions

Languishing with love or amorous desire; as, a love-sick maid. To the dear mistress of my love-sick mind. Dryden.

. " Lukewarm blood." Spenser. " Lukewarm patriots." Addison. An obedience so lukewarm and languishing that it merits not the name of passion. Dryden. -- Luce"warm`ly, adv. -- Luce"warm`ness, n.