Definition of: languish

(lang′gwish) v.i.
1. To become weak or feeble; be or grow faint or listless.
2. To live or be in unfavorable circumstances so as to be weakened by them: to languish in a dungeon.
3. To affect a look of sentimental longing or melancholy.
4. To pine with love or desire.
—noun
1. A tender look.
2. The act or state of languishing. [<OF languiss-, stem of languir <L languescere, inceptive of languere be weary, languish]
—lan′guish·er noun