languish
langg wish
- v lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
- v have a desire for something or someone who is not present
- v become feeble
The prisoner has be languishing for years in the dungeon
- Even before the Eurozone crisis there were many who were languishing under makeshift shelters but now the problem has become extremely precarious.
- The practice that was unwittingly halted still languishes because of bureaucratic ineptitude.
- The undertrials were languishing in the jail before the firebrand lawyer took up their cause and had them released from jail.