Usually means: Suffered from being neglected, weakened.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. languished: Merriam-Webster
  2. languished: Collins English Dictionary
  3. languished: Vocabulary.com
  4. languished: Wordnik
  5. languished: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. languished: Wiktionary
  7. Languished, languished: Dictionary.com
  8. languished: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Languished: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Languished: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. languished: FreeDictionary.org
  12. languished: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. languished: Legal dictionary

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  1. languished: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (languish)

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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