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   Languish , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Languished ; p. pr. & vb. n. Languishing.] [OE. languishen, languissen, F. languir, L. languere; cf. Gr.  to slacken,  slack, Icel. lakra to lag behind; prob. akin to E. lag, lax, and perh. to E. slack.  See -ish.]
   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.
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   We . . . do languish of such diseases.
   2 Esdras viii. 31.
   
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   Cease, fond nature, cease thy strife,
   And let me languish into life.
   Pope.
   
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   For the fields of Heshbon languish.
   Is. xvi. 8. 
   
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   To assume an expression of weariness or tender grief, appealing for sympathy.
   Tennyson.
   To be neglected and unattended to; as, the proposal languished on the director's desk for months.
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   Syn. -- To pine; wither; fade; droop; faint.
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   Languish , v. i. To cause to droop or pine. [Obs.]
   Shak.  Dryden.
   
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   Languish, n. See Languishment. [Obs. or Poetic]
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   What, of death, too,
   That rids our dogs of languish?
   Shak.
   
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   And the blue languish of soft Allia's eye.
   Pope.
   
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