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languish

English

  1. 🔊 become feeble
    “The prisoner has been languishing for years in the dungeon”
  2. 🔊 lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
    “After her husband died, she just pined away”
  3. 🔊 have a desire for something or someone who is not present
    “She ached for a cigarette”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 languidecer to languish, pine away

Similar words

fade pine away waste ache yearn yen pine 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