The Only Use of
languish
in
Brave New World
- From the Social Predestination Room the escalators went rumbling down into the basement, and there, in the crimson darkness, stewingly warm on their cushion of peritoneum and gorged with blood-surrogate and hormones, the foetuses grew and grew or, poisoned, languished into a stunted Epsilonhood.†
p. 146..8
Definition:
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(languish) to suffer in a bad situation for a long time