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Verb languish has 3 senses
- pine away, waste, languish - lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief; "After her husband died, she just pined away"
--1 is one way to weaken
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- ache, yearn, yen, pine, languish - have a desire for something or someone who is not present; "She ached for a cigarette"; "I am pining for my lover"
--2 is one way to hanker, long, yearn
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- languish, fade - become feeble; "The prisoner has be languishing for years in the dungeon"
--3 is one way to devolve, deteriorate, drop, degenerate
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