| VERB | change | languish, pine away, waste | lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief |
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| emotion | languish, ache, yearn, yen, pine | have a desire for something or someone who is not present | |
| body | languish, fade | become feeble |
| Sounds | lae'nggwihsh | |
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| Rhymes | abolish ... Yiddish: 161 rhymes with ihsh... | |
| Meaning | Lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s | |
| Synonyms | pine away, waste | |
| Broader | weaken | Become weaker |
| Spanish | languidecer | |
| Catalan | llanguir | |
| Nouns | languisher | a person who languishes |
| Meaning | Have a desire for something or someone who is not present. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s PP | |
| Synonyms | ache, yearn, yen, pine | |
| Narrower | die | languish as with love or desire |
| Broader | hanker, long, yearn | desire strongly or persistently |
| Spanish | anhelar, ansiar, consumirse, doler | |
| Catalan | consumir-se, doldre, saber greu | |
| Meaning | Become feeble. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s PP | |
| Example | "The prisoner has be languishing for years in the dungeon" | |
| Synonym | fade | |
| Broader | devolve, deteriorate, drop, degenerate | Grow worse |
| Spanish | desvanecerse, languidecer | |
| Catalan | esvair-se, llanguir | |
| Nouns | languisher | a person who languishes |
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