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to suffer in a bad situation for a long time- The prisoner languished in the dungeon for years.
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.
- "What does 'languishing' mean?"E. B. White -- Charlotte's Web
- 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
- 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
- Months passed, and Kano languished in prison, frightened and humiliated.Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken
- death ... that rids our dogs of languishWilliam Shakespeare -- Antony and Cleopatra
- If he had expected to find her languishing ... he must have been greatly surprised.Kate Chopin -- The Awakening
- They have languished in filthy, roach infested jails,Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Letter from a Birmingham Jail
- 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
- Maybe all hospitals should import groups of rabble-rousing punk rockers to kick-start the languishing patients' hearts.Gayle Forman -- If I Stay
- 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
- At present, Mulch was languishing in a stone-walled cell in LEP Central.Eoin Colfer -- Artemis Fowl
- Cat languishes in cellar for two days.Stephen King -- Misery
- 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
- a man that languishes in your displeasure.William Shakespeare -- Othello, the Moor of Venice
- 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
- 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
- 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 - Caspian was sorry for the others languishing in the hold of Pug's slave-ship,C.S. Lewis -- The Voyage of the Dawn Trader
languish = to suffer in a bad situation for a long time
languishing = suffering in a bad situation for a long time
languished = suffered in a bad situation for a long time
languish = suffer in a bad situation for a long time
languished = suffered in a bad situation for a long time
languish = to suffer in a bad situation for a long time
languishing = suffering in a bad situation for a long time
languished = suffered in a bad situation for a long time
languishing = suffering in a bad situation for a long time
languishing = suffering in a bad situation for a long time
languished = suffered in a bad situation for a long time
languishing = suffering in a bad situation for a long time
languishes = suffers in a bad situation for a long time
languishing = suffering in a bad situation for a long time
languishes = suffers in a bad situation for a long time
languishing = suffering in a bad situation for a long time
languished = suffered in a bad situation for a long time
languish = to suffer in a bad situation for a long time
languishing = suffering for a long time