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to suffer in a bad situation for a long time

languished = suffering in a bad situation for a long time

If you're worried their conversation will languish, include Kim. She will assure stimulating conversation no matter who is at the table.

languish = suffer in a bad situation for a long time

languishing = suffering in a bad situation for a long time

It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time,
George Bernard Shaw -- Pygmalion

languished = suffered in a bad situation for a long time

I am sure you don't want to languish in the dungeons of Limerick jail far from friends and family.
Frank McCourt -- Angela's Ashes

languish = suffer in a bad situation for a long time

Months passed, and Kano languished in prison, frightened and humiliated.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

languished = suffered in a bad situation for a long time

death ... that rids our dogs of languish
William Shakespeare -- Antony and Cleopatra

languish = to suffer in a bad situation for a long time

If he had expected to find her languishing ... he must have been greatly surprised.
Kate Chopin -- The Awakening

languishing = suffering in a bad situation for a long time

They have languished in filthy, roach infested jails,
Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Letter from a Birmingham Jail

languished = suffered in a bad situation for a long time

All these people languishing in filth, praying for the 'Great Prusias' to stop and make their fortune.
Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge

languishing = suffering in a bad situation for a long time

Maybe all hospitals should import groups of rabble-rousing punk rockers to kick-start the languishing patients' hearts.
Gayle Forman -- If I Stay

languishing = suffering in a bad situation for a long time

So Ah got up on de high stool lak she told me, but Pheoby, Ah done nearly languished tuh death up dere.
Zora Neale Hurston -- Their Eyes Were Watching God

languished = suffered in a bad situation for a long time

At present, Mulch was languishing in a stone-walled cell in LEP Central.
Eoin Colfer -- Artemis Fowl

languishing = suffering in a bad situation for a long time

languishes = suffers in a bad situation for a long time

There are insect carcasses everywhere, squashed against the windowpanes and walls, languishing in pools of water behind the taps of the sink.
Jhumpa Lahiri -- The Namesake

languishing = suffering in a bad situation for a long time

a man that languishes in your displeasure.
William Shakespeare -- Othello, the Moor of Venice

languishes = suffers in a bad situation for a long time

For several days, the six walked along a dusty road that bordered a field of languishing, half-harvested wheat.
Henry H. Neff -- The Second Siege

languishing = suffering in a bad situation for a long time

The careless owner hardly noticed it, and for some years it languished on the shelves, acquiring a pattern of mildew across the cover.
Nicole Krauss -- The History of Love

languished = suffered in a bad situation for a long time

To the which place a poor sequester'd stag,
That from the hunter's aim had ta'en a hurt,
Did come to languish ...
William Shakespeare -- As You Like It

languish = to suffer in a bad situation for a long time

Caspian was sorry for the others languishing in the hold of Pug's slave-ship,
C.S. Lewis -- The Voyage of the Dawn Trader

languishing = suffering for a long time

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