Antonyms for languish
ˈlæŋ gwɪʃlan·guish

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1. languish

   Antonyms:
   flourish, luxuriate, bloom, prosper, thrive

   Synonyms:
   pine, droop, sink, faint, wither, sigh, decline

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1. pine away, waste, languishverb

   lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief

   "After her husband died, she just pined away"

   Synonyms:
   waste, run off, emaciate, ache, blow, scourge, neutralise, devastate, yen, ravage, pine, neutralize, desolate, yearn, consume, macerate, ware, liquidate, squander, pine away, do in, rot, fade, knock off, lay waste to

2. ache, yearn, yen, pine, languishverb

   have a desire for something or someone who is not present

   "She ached for a cigarette"; "I am pining for my lover"

   Synonyms:
   smart, hurt, fade, pine away, yearn, long, ache, suffer, pine, hanker, waste, yen

3. languish, fadeverb

   become feeble

   "The prisoner has be languishing for years in the dungeon"

   Synonyms:
   yearn, waste, evanesce, fade, pine away, ache, fleet, pine, pass off, blow over, wither, melt, pass, yen

How to use languish in a sentence?

1. Natasha Alexenko:

   The thought of even being in the same room as those people gives me goose bumps. I'd burst into tears of gratitude, how can you begin to say thank you for that? And what an insult to that ingenuity that we're just letting these kits languish.

2. Megan Crandall:

   In no way is there any intention whatsoever to let this languish, our intention is to move forward with as much alacrity as possible.

3. President Yoshihiro Nishiyama:

   Copper prices will continue to languish this year, hovering between the current level and $5,500 a tonne.

4. Fyodor Urnov:

   To have something this astonishingly curative languish because the marketplace isn’t configured to deliver curative therapies for rare diseases – it’s just an enormous stain.

5. Ritchie Torres:

   We can let children languish in povertythat's going to haunt them for the rest of their lives orwe can give them a fighting chance, i prefer the latter, but that's a value judgment.

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