abate, come apart, decrease, disintegrate, erode, fizzle out, hit the skids, peter out, run low, touch bottom, wilt
Definitionv. lose vigor
Last update: June 4, 2017
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The value of gold is languishing. [verb]
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While I don’t normally enjoy being out in the sun, if I have to languish somewhere hot all day, I choose Hawaii. [verb]
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Are you going to languish in bed all Spring Break or do you plan on going outside and enjoying the sunlight? [verb]
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So they starve and languish and fall sick, as did this young man's wife. [verb]
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After the 20 mile run, I was expecting to languish. [Please select]
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I was expecting to be languish after my 9 mile run. [Please select]
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I languish for Fareham House--my basset-table, my friends, my watermen to waft me to and fro between Blackfriars and Westminster, the mercers in St. [verb]
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Cooper Climent's business continued to languish, and he died in a state of poverty. [verb]
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His predecessors had let the magnificently traced itineraries of the Romans languish and become covered with grass--if not actually timber-grown. [verb]
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I am so accustomed to constant activity, perfect freedom, and a stirring exchange of thought, that I should languish and die in the confinement of a harem. [verb]
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"And people languish in the most terrible torture till death ends their suffering," added Cleopatra, in a tone of grave reproof. [verb]
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