languish



languish in

 some place
1. to become dispirited in some place; to weaken and fade away in some place. Claire languished in prison for her crime. I spent over three days languishing in a stuffy hotel room. We languished in the airport waiting room while they refueled the plane.
2. to suffer neglect in a place. The bill languished in the Senate for months on end. The children languished in the squalid conditions until the court intervened.
See also: languish

languish over someone or something

to pine over someone or something. There is no point in languishing over Tim. He'll never come back. She wasted half her life languishing over her lost opportunities.
See also: languish

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
MeinardMIE-nahrtGerman
Darek-Polish
JÓHann-Icelandic
GereonGE-re-awn (German)German, Late Roman
Janko-Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Slovak
Alf (3)-Swedish, Norwegian, Danish