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Phrase(s): languish in some place
1. to become dispirited in some place; to weaken and fade away in some place. • Claire languished in prison for her crime. • I spent over three days languishing in a stuffy hotel room. • We languished in the airport waiting room while they refueled the plane. 2. to suffer neglect in a place. • The bill languished in the Senate for months on end. • The children languished in the squalid conditions until the court intervened.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs