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languish

verb
🔊/ˈlæŋɡwɪʃ/
🔊/ˈlæŋɡwɪʃ/
(formal)
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they languish
🔊/ˈlæŋɡwɪʃ/
🔊/ˈlæŋɡwɪʃ/
he / she / it languishes
🔊/ˈlæŋɡwɪʃɪz/
🔊/ˈlæŋɡwɪʃɪz/
past simple languished
🔊/ˈlæŋɡwɪʃt/
🔊/ˈlæŋɡwɪʃt/
past participle languished
🔊/ˈlæŋɡwɪʃt/
🔊/ˈlæŋɡwɪʃt/
-ing form languishing
🔊/ˈlæŋɡwɪʃɪŋ/
🔊/ˈlæŋɡwɪʃɪŋ/
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  1. [intransitive] languish (in something) to be forced to stay somewhere or suffer something unpleasant for a long time被迫滞留；长期受苦；受煎熬
    • She continues to languish in a foreign prison.她继续被囚禁在一所外国的监狱里。🔊🔊
  2. [intransitive] to become weaker or fail to make progress变得衰弱；未能取得进展
    • The share price languished at 102p.股票价格停滞在 102 便士上。🔊🔊
    Topics Difficulty and failurec2
    3. Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘become faint, feeble, or ill’): from Old French languiss-, lengthened stem of languir ‘languish’, from a variant of Latin languere, related to laxus ‘loose, lax’.