It is where someone slowly fades away in health. Such as--> He languished away in the dungeon.
The word "languished" has 2 syllables. It is pronounced as lan-guished.
he languished all his attention on her, his one and only daughter.
The past tense of languish is languished.
since I hadnt the energy to argue with sir poncemby-smythe, I instead chose to languish on my chaise-lonuge, with an air of infinite ill-wishing about me. The prisinor was trapped into jail for two months. Without healthy food, he was linguished.
The word "languish" means to be forced to live in an a bad situation. For example, "The murder languished in jail for many years".
The robber had to languish in prison for his crimes.
The children were languished of love and food.
"Languished" means to suffer from being forced to remain in a situation of neglect or inactivity for a long time, causing hardship or deterioration.
Anguished, banished, blandished, blemished, brandished, burnished, cherished, diminished, famished, garnished, languished, lavished, nourished, perished, polished, published, punished, ravished, relished, skirmished, and varnished are words that rhyme with finished.
For several decades after the Korean War, South Korea languished in economic squalor. However, in the 1980s, the new government began to spend large amounts of money on infrastructure which caused Korean companies to produce large quantities of salable items for the world to buy.
Hie thee to a good (i.e. college or university) library and ask the person at the reference desk where the Chemical Abstracts are. I'd give a better answer if I could, but I'm not a synthetic organic chemist and this question has languished unanswered for 8 years, so I'm trying to be as helpful as I can.
The arrival of Queen Caroline in England gave a certain impulse to fashion, which had for some time languished without a leader. The Queen of George II had a great liking for flowered silks, usually with a white ground embossed all over with a large pattern of gold, silver, or colors.