languish
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
After her husband died, she just pined away
Types & categories
- weaken hypernym
Related & opposite
- languisher derivation
- wastage derivation
Sense 2 verb
have a desire for something or someone who is not present
She ached for a cigarette
Types & categories
Related & opposite
Sense 3 verb
become feeble
The prisoner has be languishing for years in the dungeon
Types & categories
- degenerate hypernym
Related & opposite
- attenuation derivation
- languisher derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | languisher |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | wastage |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | weaken |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | longing |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | hankering |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | pining |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | longer |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | yearn |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | die |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | attenuation |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | languisher |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | degenerate |