All 4 Uses of
languish
in
Mountains Beyond Mountains
- He languished there for weeks, then returned in a gigantic cast to the apartment he shared with Ophelia.†
Chpt 2.10languished = suffered in a bad situation for a long time
- The cell where the young man languished was unlit.†
Chpt 4.20
- 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.
Chpt 4.23 *languish = suffer in a bad situation for a long time
- Nearly half of all tb cases and most of the drug-resistant ones languished in the prisons.†
Chpt 4.23languished = suffered in a bad situation for a long time
Definition:
to suffer in a bad situation for a long time