Usually means: Suffer from being forced to wait.
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  1. languish: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. languish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. languish: Collins English Dictionary
  4. languish: Vocabulary.com
  5. Languish, languish: Wordnik
  6. languish: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. languish: Wiktionary
  8. languish: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. languish: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. languish: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Languish, languish: Dictionary.com
  12. languish: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. languish: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Languish: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. languish: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. languish: Rhymezone
  17. languish: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. languish: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. Languish: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  20. Languish: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. languish: Free Dictionary
  22. languish: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. languish: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. languish: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. languish: Legal dictionary

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  1. languish: Encyclopedia

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  1. languish: Idioms

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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To lose strength and become weak; to be in a state of weakness or sickness.
verb:  (intransitive) To pine away in longing for something; to have low spirits, especially from lovesickness.
verb:  (intransitive) To live in miserable or disheartening conditions.
verb:  (intransitive) To be neglected; to make little progress, be unsuccessful.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To make weak; to weaken, devastate.
verb:  (intransitive, now rare) To affect a languid air, especially disingenuously.

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