Both Uses of
languish
in
David Copperfield
- I wonder sometimes, when I think of it, what they would have done if I had been taken with an illness; whether I should have lain down in my lonely room, and languished through it in my usual solitary way, or whether anybody would have helped me out.†
Chpt 10-12 *
- In my love-lorn condition, my appetite languished; and I was glad of it, for I felt as though it would have been an act of perfidy towards Dora to have a natural relish for my dinner.†
Chpt 28-30
Definition:
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(languish) to suffer in a bad situation for a long time