languish

languish is a 8-letter English word with 7 senses as intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To become languid or weak; to lose strength or animation; to be or become dull, feeble or spiritless; to pine away; to wither or fade. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 15 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To become languid or weak; to lose strength or animation; to be or become dull, feeble or spiritless; to pine away; to wither or fade.
2. intransitive verb. To assume an expression of weariness or tender grief, appealing for sympathy.
3. intransitive verb. To cause to droop or pine.
4. noun. See Languishiment.
5. verb. become feeble

   "The prisoner has be languishing for years in the dungeon"

   Synonyms: fade

6. verb. lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief

   "After her husband died, she just pined away"

   Synonyms: waste

7. verb. have a desire for something or someone who is not present

   "She ached for a cigarette"

   "I am pining for my lover"

   Synonyms: ache, pine, yearn, yen

Synonyms

fade, waste, ache, pine, yearn, yen

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in languish:

haulings, nilghaus, shauling

Common word forms

languished, languisher, languishes, languishing, languishment

Words from these letters

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