What does "languish" mean?
Languish: Cease, fond nature, cease thy strife, And let me landguish into life. Pope. For the fields of Heshbon languish. Is. xvi.
Additional senses
- 2.2. To assume an expression of weariness or tender grief, appealing for sympathy. Tennyson.
- 3.To cause to dr [Obs.] Shak. Dryden.
- 4.See Languishiment. [Obs. or Poetic] What, of death, too, That rids our dogs of languish Shak. And the blue languish of soft Allia's eye. Pope.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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