Languish
Languish , intransitive verb
[Old English languishen, languissen, French languir, Latin languere; compare Greek {not transcribed} to slacken, {not transcribed} slack, Icelandic lakra to lag behind; prob. akin to English lag, lax, and perh. to English slack. See -ish.]
1.
To become languid or weak; to lose strength or animation; to be or become dull, feeble or spiritless; to pine away; to linger in a weak or deteriorating condition; to wither or fade.
We... do languish of such diseases.
Cease, fond nature, cease thy strife,
And let me languish into life.
For the fields of Heshbon languish.
2.
To assume an expression of weariness or tender grief, appealing for sympathy. — Tennyson
3.
To be neglected and unattended to; as, the proposal languished on the director's desk for months.
Languish , intransitive verb
To cause to droop or pine. [Obsolete] — Shakespeare
Languish , noun
See Languishment. [Obsolete or Poetic]
What, of death, too,
That rids our dogs of languish?
And the blue languish of soft Allia's eye.