|
languish 音標拼音: [l'æŋgwɪʃ] vi. 憔悴,凋萎,苦思 憔悴,凋萎,苦思 languish v 1: lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief; " After her husband died, she just pined away" [ synonym: { pine away}, { waste}, { languish}] 2: have a desire for something or someone who is not present; " She ached for a cigarette"; " I am pining for my lover" [ synonym: { ache}, { yearn}, { yen}, { pine}, { languish}] 3: become feeble; " The prisoner has be languishing for years in the dungeon" [ synonym: { languish}, { fade}] Languish \ Lan" guish\, v. i. To cause to droop or pine. [ Obs.] -- Shak. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster]
Languish \ Lan" guish\, n. See { Languishment}. [ Obs. or Poetic] [ 1913 Webster] What, of death, too, That rids our dogs of languish? -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] And the blue languish of soft Allia' s eye. -- Pope. [ 1913 Webster]
Languish \ Lan" guish\, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. { Languished}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Languishing}.] [ OE. languishen, languissen, F. languir, L. languere; cf. Gr. ? to slacken, ? slack, Icel. lakra to lag behind; prob. akin to E. lag, lax, and perh. to E. 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. [ 1913 Webster] We . . . do languish of such diseases. -- 2 Esdras viii. 31. [ 1913 Webster] Cease, fond nature, cease thy strife, And let me languish into life. -- Pope. [ 1913 Webster] For the fields of Heshbon languish. -- Is. xvi. 8. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ PJC] Syn: To pine; wither; fade; droop; faint. [ 1913 Webster] 85 Moby Thesaurus words for " languish": abate, ablate, bate, be eaten away, become suicidal, break, cave in, collapse, come apart, come unstuck, conk out, consume, consume away, corrode, crumble, decline, decrease, deliquesce, desiccate, despair, despond, deteriorate, die away, diminish, disintegrate, dive, droop, drop, drop off, dry up, dwindle, ebb, erode, fade, fade away, fail, faint, fall, fall away, fall off, fizzle out, flag, give out, give way, go downhill, go soft, go to pieces, hit rock bottom, hit the skids, lessen, let up, lose heart, lose strength, melt away, peak, peg out, peter out, pine, plumb the depths, plummet, plunge, poop out, reach the depths, run down, run low, sag, sear, shrink, shrivel, sink, subside, tail off, touch bottom, wane, waste, waste away, weaken, wear, wear away, wear thin, wilt, wither, wither away, wizen, yield
|
安裝中文字典英文字典查詢工具!
中文字典英文字典工具:
英文字典中文字典相關資料:
|