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Definition of languish in English: languishverb ˈlaŋɡwɪʃˈlæŋɡwɪʃ [no object]1(of a person, animal, or plant) lose or lack vitality; grow weak. （人，生物）失去（或缺少）活力；变得衰弱 plants may appear to be languishing simply because they are dormant 植物可能会显得病恹恹的，那只是因为它们处于休眠期中。 Example sentencesExamples - We fade, lose heart, become torpid, languish, then the sap rises again, and we are passionate.
- Over time, he languishes and grows melancholy.
- Thousands of other sick people languishing on transplant waiting lists across the country are not so lucky.
- The 29.5lb predator gave Brockhole's maintenance manager Don Hunt a ‘big surprise’ as he found the fish languishing on the lake shore.
- Animals caught in inhumane traps will languish not for hours, but for days.
- If your pet dog would truly languish in the wild, as a stray, you might be able to meet the comparable-life condition without meeting, say, his needs for adequate stimulation, exercise, and contact with other dogs.
- Zoo animals languish away in captivity, showing us nothing of their true natural behavior.
- Hundreds of thousands of animals languish in zoos around the world.
- Once again - many of those plants may simply languish in your garden's growing conditions.
- Aside from all this, a linden tree languishes at the inside corner of the last dogleg, just at the turn of the river, blocking the direct route to the green.
- Howard didn't know how long he'd languished, lost in misery.
- Plants that need moist soil will languish in sandy, dry soil, for example.
- The potential new species strides ahead up the fitness curve, leaving its more poorly-adapted predecessors languishing behind, to the point when they are driven to extinction.
- The mistletoe is dependent on the apple and a few other trees, but can only in a far-fetched sense be said to struggle with these trees, for if too many of these parasites grow on the same tree, it will languish and die.
- Most of those imprisoned languished into ill health, many losing their lives due to total disregard.
- His power over her is such that when he dies her voice collapses, she loses her eminence, languishes, and finally dies herself.
- Conversely plants that languish in the too hot summer can survive happily in a shadier place with more humidity and slightly damper soil.
- Lawns remained uncut, gardens unweeded and crops languished in the field.
- Get it right and no one notices; get it wrong and plants languish and die in boggy beds, huge puddles kill lawn, and in the worst case scenario you awake to the slap and gurgle of water in the basement.
- Because field crops, like potted plants, languish when they're over-watered, proper drainage is an important aspect of successful farming.
Synonyms weaken, grow weak, deteriorate, decline, go into a decline wither, droop, flag, wilt, fade, fail, waste away informal go downhill - 1.1 Fail to make progress or be successful.
没有进展没有成功 Kelso languish near the bottom of the Scottish First Division 凯尔索队徘徊在苏格兰甲级联赛榜的榜尾。 Example sentencesExamples - Have your investments languished because of low interest rates and a lethargic stock market?
- Two goals in each half from the league leaders saw Newry brushed aside with consummate ease and keeps the City languishing near the bottom of the table.
- Both are at home against teams languishing near the bottom, and both need maximum points to count themselves in to the final week.
- Sligo has been languishing near the bottom from the start.
- Saturday's home defeat to a side which was bottom of the Conference was the final straw, following a start to the season that has seen City languishing near the bottom of the table claiming just 16 points from 16 games.
- The Hurricanes no longer have to languish near the bottom of the points table.
- For companies with equity capital or revenue streams, government funds can be used to advance mainstream projects or to develop projects that could otherwise languish for lack of monetary resources.
- The cold, hard facts are that the Bulls now languish mid table after dropping both of their Easter weekend matches against the competition's top two clubs.
- Schools in such deprived areas as Drumchapel languish near the bottom reaches of the system, if you rely purely on the percentages of pupils passing Higher and Standard Grade exams.
- I expect Peters' vote to languish below the 5% mark as a result of this.
- And as the public sector grew, the private sector languished.
- At the back however - even against an impoverished Hearts' display - there was no shortage of evidence as to why Killie are languishing near the bottom of the table.
- In the third quarter of last year, gross value added by Scotland's financial services industry was still languishing below the levels set a year earlier.
- I know for a fact that there are simply far too many good Kiwi websites that are languishing through lack of adequate promotion.
- For years afterward, the index languished below the century mark as the economy slowed and inflation ravaged consumers' buying power.
- We watch key centres - such as Sydney - grow almost in spite of themselves while other cities languish in a global world which doesn't much care what the place used to be, only what it can become.
- Despite gaining a bonus point, South Africa's Bulls hopes of reaching the semifinals appear dashed as they languish mid-table on 23 points.
- I had no illusions about winning a cash prize, but having played prop forward for an RAF rugby team in Holland during my salad days, and being aware that the Wasps were languishing near the bottom of their league, I agreed.
- Although the team are languishing near the bottom of the third division, I am still very proud to be a York fan, and the other week when we beat Reading in the Cup I was so happy I had tears in my eyes.
- And Boavista, who are languishing 40 points below Porto in 10th spot in the league, have only scored more league goals this season than one side, Sporting Braga.
- 1.2archaic Pine with love or grief.
〈古〉思恋，哀思 she still languished after Richard 她还在苦苦思恋着理查德。 Example sentencesExamples - I have seen children all over the world languishing for love, and care, and giving.
Synonyms pine for, yearn for, ache for, long for, sigh for, desire, want, hanker after, carry a torch for - 1.3archaic Assume a sentimentally tender or melancholy expression or tone.
〈古〉摆出一副情意真切的温柔（或忧伤的）模样；显示出温柔亲切（或忧伤）的样子 when a visitor comes in, she smiles and languishes 有客来访时，她面带笑容，随即就变得愁容满面。
2Be forced to remain in an unpleasant place or situation. 被迫处于逆境 he has been languishing in jail since 1974 1974年以来他一直在墨西哥一监狱中受折磨。 Example sentencesExamples - According to official figures, around 250,000 old appliances will be languishing in storage by the end of the year because of an EU directive demanding the safe disposal of the harmful chemicals they contain.
- An estimated 400 000 people have fled into neighbouring Sierra Leone, Guinea and Ivory Coast and have been languishing in refugee camps, the sites of frequent unrest.
- Some of this cruelty still disturbs me, but at least it's honest: and much less hypocritical than the cruelty of the British food industry where consumers buy their meat safe and sanitised while the animals languish in battery pens.
- Briefly, I'm inundated with other matters, which also explains why so many e-mails are languishing in the ‘To Be Answered’ folder.
- They were eager to unearth every scrap of information, many having high hopes that they were related to someone rich and famous with an unclaimed fortune languishing in a long-forgotten bank account just begging to be collected.
- Supporters of democracy must firmly challenge that dangerous illusion and remind the world of the dissidents languishing in Cuban jails, many of whom have become seriously ill after being confined for long periods in dank cells.
- The police themselves have more powers than at any time since the Rum Rebellion and a record number of citizens are now languishing in prison cells under conditions as abusive as any since the Nagle Royal Commission.
- While resources are squandered on these high-profile initiatives, patients are queuing up on casualty trolleys awaiting admission, or languishing in dirty hospital wards after months of waiting.
- A 35-year-old Briton languishing in a Bangkok jail under sentence of death for a crime he says he did not commit is planning to protest his innocence by refusing to plead for a royal pardon.
- Moreover, they are impeding humanitarian access to something approaching one million people who are languishing in camps desperately short of food and medicine.
- And while they are now finally in a permanent home, hundreds of Scottish children are left languishing in what adoption experts call a ‘planning limbo’.
- In terms of human suffering the bomb blast case is far worse then any other trial in India - several wrongly implicated persons are languishing in jail for seven years along with hardened criminals.
- There is a paragraph in the appellant's submissions that refers to the unacceptability of simply allowing a person to languish in detention.
- The aircraft has been languishing in a hangar on a wartime airfield at Bruntingthorpe in Leicestershire where enthusiasts have so far raised £400,000 to keep it well-maintained.
- Dozens of former FNL child soldiers associated with the National Liberation Forces (Forces Nationales pour la Libération, or FNL) languish in government custody - in prisons, jails, and a newly opened welcome center for former FNL combatants - without any clarity of their legal status or knowledge of when they might be returned to their families.
- After storming out of the academy, it appeared he would be doomed forever to languish in the ranks of domestic cricket and any chance of representing his country was gone.
- These children are languishing in prisons with no one fighting for their rights, and we want to give them a voice and make sure that their rights are upheld.
- As the nation observed the fifth anniversary of the victory in Kargil, a mother made a fervent appeal to the President for expediting the process of bringing back her son languishing in a Pakistani jail as a prisoner of war.
- In short, if bail were set in this capital case, the Dog would languish in jail for lack of it.
- Our real reformers are among the 600,000 languishing in prison, or the hundreds of candidates who are disqualified in each election for believing in human rights or secularism.
Synonyms waste away, rot, decay, wither away, moulder, be abandoned, be neglected, be forgotten, suffer be disregarded, experience hardship
Derivativesnoun adverb ˈlaŋɡwɪʃɪŋliˈlæŋɡwɪʃɪŋli noun ˈlaŋɡwɪʃm(ə)ntˈlæŋɡwɪʃmənt mass nounarchaic 1A state of weakness or loss of strength. instead of buzzing with endless ideas, the writers' room is stuck in a state of languishment Example sentencesExamples - The whole mess, laced with pleas to ‘Keep freakin' / Keep on freakin' out,’ amounts to a suffocating Wall of displaced apathetic aggression and slacker languishment.
- No clue is offered to the identity of ‘his […] favorite Disciple’ other than Frasi but she was perhaps an amateur, one of those Fine Ladies whose hearts were caught by Saint-Germain's ‘languishment’.
- nothing is left us here but languishment and grief
2A feeling of pensive sadness.
OriginMiddle English (in the sense 'become faint, feeble, or ill'): from Old French languiss-, lengthened stem of languir 'languish', from a variant of Latin languere, related to laxus 'loose, lax'. Early senses included ‘become faint, feeble, or ill’; in the early 18th century it came to mean ‘assume a languid or sentimentally tender expression’ and was aptly applied to Sheridan's character Lydia Languish in The Rivals performed for the first time in 1775. The word goes back to Latin laxus ‘loose, lax’ found also in lax (Late Middle English), relax (Late Middle English) where the re- intensifies the sense; relay (Late Middle English), release (Middle English), and laxative (Late Middle English) something that loosens the bowels. See slake
Definition of languish in US English: languishverbˈlæŋɡwɪʃˈlaNGɡwiSH [no object]1(of a person or other living thing) lose or lack vitality; grow weak or feeble. （人，生物）失去（或缺少）活力；变得衰弱 plants may appear to be languishing simply because they are dormant 植物可能会显得病恹恹的，那只是因为它们处于休眠期中。 Example sentencesExamples - Plants that need moist soil will languish in sandy, dry soil, for example.
- Lawns remained uncut, gardens unweeded and crops languished in the field.
- Animals caught in inhumane traps will languish not for hours, but for days.
- The potential new species strides ahead up the fitness curve, leaving its more poorly-adapted predecessors languishing behind, to the point when they are driven to extinction.
- The mistletoe is dependent on the apple and a few other trees, but can only in a far-fetched sense be said to struggle with these trees, for if too many of these parasites grow on the same tree, it will languish and die.
- His power over her is such that when he dies her voice collapses, she loses her eminence, languishes, and finally dies herself.
- Most of those imprisoned languished into ill health, many losing their lives due to total disregard.
- Zoo animals languish away in captivity, showing us nothing of their true natural behavior.
- Over time, he languishes and grows melancholy.
- Aside from all this, a linden tree languishes at the inside corner of the last dogleg, just at the turn of the river, blocking the direct route to the green.
- Hundreds of thousands of animals languish in zoos around the world.
- The 29.5lb predator gave Brockhole's maintenance manager Don Hunt a ‘big surprise’ as he found the fish languishing on the lake shore.
- We fade, lose heart, become torpid, languish, then the sap rises again, and we are passionate.
- If your pet dog would truly languish in the wild, as a stray, you might be able to meet the comparable-life condition without meeting, say, his needs for adequate stimulation, exercise, and contact with other dogs.
- Because field crops, like potted plants, languish when they're over-watered, proper drainage is an important aspect of successful farming.
- Thousands of other sick people languishing on transplant waiting lists across the country are not so lucky.
- Once again - many of those plants may simply languish in your garden's growing conditions.
- Get it right and no one notices; get it wrong and plants languish and die in boggy beds, huge puddles kill lawn, and in the worst case scenario you awake to the slap and gurgle of water in the basement.
- Conversely plants that languish in the too hot summer can survive happily in a shadier place with more humidity and slightly damper soil.
- Howard didn't know how long he'd languished, lost in misery.
Synonyms weaken, grow weak, deteriorate, decline, go into a decline - 1.1 Fail to make progress or be successful.
没有进展没有成功 foreign stocks are still languishing Example sentencesExamples - And as the public sector grew, the private sector languished.
- For years afterward, the index languished below the century mark as the economy slowed and inflation ravaged consumers' buying power.
- I know for a fact that there are simply far too many good Kiwi websites that are languishing through lack of adequate promotion.
- Have your investments languished because of low interest rates and a lethargic stock market?
- Both are at home against teams languishing near the bottom, and both need maximum points to count themselves in to the final week.
- We watch key centres - such as Sydney - grow almost in spite of themselves while other cities languish in a global world which doesn't much care what the place used to be, only what it can become.
- Sligo has been languishing near the bottom from the start.
- At the back however - even against an impoverished Hearts' display - there was no shortage of evidence as to why Killie are languishing near the bottom of the table.
- Although the team are languishing near the bottom of the third division, I am still very proud to be a York fan, and the other week when we beat Reading in the Cup I was so happy I had tears in my eyes.
- Schools in such deprived areas as Drumchapel languish near the bottom reaches of the system, if you rely purely on the percentages of pupils passing Higher and Standard Grade exams.
- Two goals in each half from the league leaders saw Newry brushed aside with consummate ease and keeps the City languishing near the bottom of the table.
- For companies with equity capital or revenue streams, government funds can be used to advance mainstream projects or to develop projects that could otherwise languish for lack of monetary resources.
- Despite gaining a bonus point, South Africa's Bulls hopes of reaching the semifinals appear dashed as they languish mid-table on 23 points.
- The cold, hard facts are that the Bulls now languish mid table after dropping both of their Easter weekend matches against the competition's top two clubs.
- And Boavista, who are languishing 40 points below Porto in 10th spot in the league, have only scored more league goals this season than one side, Sporting Braga.
- In the third quarter of last year, gross value added by Scotland's financial services industry was still languishing below the levels set a year earlier.
- I expect Peters' vote to languish below the 5% mark as a result of this.
- I had no illusions about winning a cash prize, but having played prop forward for an RAF rugby team in Holland during my salad days, and being aware that the Wasps were languishing near the bottom of their league, I agreed.
- Saturday's home defeat to a side which was bottom of the Conference was the final straw, following a start to the season that has seen City languishing near the bottom of the table claiming just 16 points from 16 games.
- The Hurricanes no longer have to languish near the bottom of the points table.
- 1.2archaic Pine with love or grief.
〈古〉思恋，哀思 she still languished after Richard 她还在苦苦思恋着理查德。 Example sentencesExamples - I have seen children all over the world languishing for love, and care, and giving.
Synonyms pine for, yearn for, ache for, long for, sigh for, desire, want, hanker after, carry a torch for - 1.3archaic Assume or display a sentimentally tender or melancholy expression or tone.
〈古〉摆出一副情意真切的温柔（或忧伤的）模样；显示出温柔亲切（或忧伤）的样子 when a visitor comes in, she smiles and languishes 有客来访时，她面带笑容，随即就变得愁容满面。
2Suffer from being forced to remain in an unpleasant place or situation. 被迫处于逆境 he has been languishing in jail since 1974 1974年以来他一直在墨西哥一监狱中受折磨。 Example sentencesExamples - In short, if bail were set in this capital case, the Dog would languish in jail for lack of it.
- The aircraft has been languishing in a hangar on a wartime airfield at Bruntingthorpe in Leicestershire where enthusiasts have so far raised £400,000 to keep it well-maintained.
- In terms of human suffering the bomb blast case is far worse then any other trial in India - several wrongly implicated persons are languishing in jail for seven years along with hardened criminals.
- These children are languishing in prisons with no one fighting for their rights, and we want to give them a voice and make sure that their rights are upheld.
- The police themselves have more powers than at any time since the Rum Rebellion and a record number of citizens are now languishing in prison cells under conditions as abusive as any since the Nagle Royal Commission.
- They were eager to unearth every scrap of information, many having high hopes that they were related to someone rich and famous with an unclaimed fortune languishing in a long-forgotten bank account just begging to be collected.
- A 35-year-old Briton languishing in a Bangkok jail under sentence of death for a crime he says he did not commit is planning to protest his innocence by refusing to plead for a royal pardon.
- And while they are now finally in a permanent home, hundreds of Scottish children are left languishing in what adoption experts call a ‘planning limbo’.
- While resources are squandered on these high-profile initiatives, patients are queuing up on casualty trolleys awaiting admission, or languishing in dirty hospital wards after months of waiting.
- An estimated 400 000 people have fled into neighbouring Sierra Leone, Guinea and Ivory Coast and have been languishing in refugee camps, the sites of frequent unrest.
- As the nation observed the fifth anniversary of the victory in Kargil, a mother made a fervent appeal to the President for expediting the process of bringing back her son languishing in a Pakistani jail as a prisoner of war.
- Briefly, I'm inundated with other matters, which also explains why so many e-mails are languishing in the ‘To Be Answered’ folder.
- Dozens of former FNL child soldiers associated with the National Liberation Forces (Forces Nationales pour la Libération, or FNL) languish in government custody - in prisons, jails, and a newly opened welcome center for former FNL combatants - without any clarity of their legal status or knowledge of when they might be returned to their families.
- Our real reformers are among the 600,000 languishing in prison, or the hundreds of candidates who are disqualified in each election for believing in human rights or secularism.
- There is a paragraph in the appellant's submissions that refers to the unacceptability of simply allowing a person to languish in detention.
- Some of this cruelty still disturbs me, but at least it's honest: and much less hypocritical than the cruelty of the British food industry where consumers buy their meat safe and sanitised while the animals languish in battery pens.
- After storming out of the academy, it appeared he would be doomed forever to languish in the ranks of domestic cricket and any chance of representing his country was gone.
- According to official figures, around 250,000 old appliances will be languishing in storage by the end of the year because of an EU directive demanding the safe disposal of the harmful chemicals they contain.
- Supporters of democracy must firmly challenge that dangerous illusion and remind the world of the dissidents languishing in Cuban jails, many of whom have become seriously ill after being confined for long periods in dank cells.
- Moreover, they are impeding humanitarian access to something approaching one million people who are languishing in camps desperately short of food and medicine.
Synonyms waste away, rot, decay, wither away, moulder, be abandoned, be neglected, be forgotten, suffer
OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘become faint, feeble, or ill’): from Old French languiss-, lengthened stem of languir ‘languish’, from a variant of Latin languere, related to laxus ‘loose, lax’. |