languishing

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English

Adjective

languishing

  1. Lacking of vigor or spirit.

Verb

languishing

  1. present participle and gerund of languish

Noun

languishing (plural languishings)

  1. The act of one who languishes.
    • 1680, Thomas Otway, The Orphan:
      Happy, Monimia, he to whom these sighs, / These tears, and all these languishings, are paid!