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  • Cat languishes in cellar for two days.  (source)
    languishes = suffers in a bad situation for a long time
  • At present, Mulch was languishing in a stone-walled cell in LEP Central.  (source)
    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.  (source)
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  • Over a century, languishing in chains, Dare I now hope for freedom from my woes?  (source)
    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.  (source)
    languished = suffered in a bad situation for a long time
  • In Russia just now, a young man could get thrown in jail for stealing a loaf of bread or a bottle of vodka and, because the criminal justice system was clogged, languish in a detention center for a year or even four years before his case came to trial.  (source)
    languish = suffer in a bad situation for a long time
  • It profits me but little, after all, that a vigilant authority should protect the tranquillity of my pleasures and constantly avert all dangers from my path, without my care or my concern, if this same authority is the absolute mistress of my liberty and of my life, and if it so monopolizes all the energy of existence that when it languishes everything languishes around it, that when it sleeps everything must sleep, that when it dies the State itself must perish.†  (source)
    languishes = suffers in a bad situation for a long time
  • More rueful was it not methinks to see The nation in Aegina droop, what time Each living thing, e'en to the little worm, All fell, so full of malice was the air (And afterward, as bards of yore have told, The ancient people were restor'd anew From seed of emmets) than was here to see The spirits, that languish'd through the murky vale Up-pil'd on many a stack.†  (source)
  • 24:7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She languisheth" in older English, today we say "She languishes."
  • As he listened to all this Don Quixote was in a state of breathless amazement, for immediately the countless adventures like this, with windows, gratings, gardens, serenades, lovemakings, and languishings, that he had read of in his trashy books of chivalry, came to his mind.†  (source)
  • The lines of her countenance changed from the rigidity of business to the softness of love when she saw Jude, and she bent her eyes languishingly upon him.†  (source)
    languishingly = with suffering in a bad situation for a long time
  • Under no circumstances must he lend himself to any additional blandishments or languishments in this field.†  (source)
  • There are insect carcasses everywhere, squashed against the windowpanes and walls, languishing in pools of water behind the taps of the sink.  (source)
    languishing = suffering in a bad situation for a long time
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