Languish synonyms
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To feel deep pity, sympathy, or tenderness:
To sag in dejection or exhaustion:
(Educ.) To get a grade of failure; not pass
To have a strong desire or craving.
To have an intense longing or desire; yearn
(Often with up) To note, mark or point out for attention.
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To grow worse; degenerate:
To be or become stagnant.
want (related)
To feel the need of; long for; crave
To be discontented or low in spirits; complain or fret.
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To lose strength or power
(By extension) To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.
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To fade is defined as to become less bright, to grow more faint, less popular, or less strong, or to begin to wither away and disappear.
(Music) To reduce (a perfect or a minor interval) by a half step
To lose courage or hope
To continue to live or exist although very close to death or the end
To cause to descend beneath the surface or to the bottom of a liquid:
To put up with; tolerate:
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To be plentifully supplied:
To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
To become limp, as from heat or lack of water; wither; droop
To cause to lose force or vitality; diminish or destroy:
thrive (antonym)
To grow vigorously or luxuriantly; improve physically
grow (antonym)
To come to be by a gradual process or by degrees; become:
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strengthen (antonym)
improve (antonym)
To raise to a more desirable or more excellent quality or condition; make better:
go-downhill
hit-the-skids
increase (related)
To cause to become greater in size, amount, degree, etc.; add to; augment
strong (related)
In a strong manner; greatly, severely, vigorously, etc.
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health (related)
To waste away from longing or grief
pine away
lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
To have or give dull, steady pain
To have a yen (for); long; yearn
incarcerate (related)
locked up (related)
cower (related)
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To wish or long for; want:
need (related)
To be under the necessity of or the obligation to:
To be in poor health, esp. over a period of time
Find another word for languish. In this page you can discover 45 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for languish, like: weaken, yearn, droop, fail, hunger, pine, flag, deteriorate, stagnate, want and repine.