Languish vs Falter - What's the difference?
languish | falter |
To lose strength and become weak; to be in a state of weakness or sickness.
* Bible, 2 Esdras viii. 31
To pine away in longing for something; to have low spirits, especially from lovesickness.
To live in miserable or disheartening conditions.
To be neglected; to make little progress, be unsuccessful.
(obsolete) To make weak; to weaken, devastate.
* 1815 , Jane Austen, Emma
unsteadiness.
To waver or be unsteady.
* Wiseman
(ambitransitive) To stammer; to utter with hesitation, or in a weak and trembling manner.
* Byron
* Milton
To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; said of the mind or of thought.
* I. Taylor
To stumble.
(figuratively) To lose faith or vigor; to doubt or abandon (a cause).
*
To hesitate in purpose or action.
* Shakespeare
To cleanse or sift, as barley.
As a verb languish
is to lose strength and become weak; to be in a state of weakness or sickness.As a noun falter is
butterfly.languish
English
Verb
(es)- We do languish of such diseases.
- He languished without his girlfriend
- He languished in prison for years
- The case languished for years before coming to trial.
- He is an excellent young man, and will suit Harriet exactly: it will be an "exactly so," as he says himself; but he does sigh and languish , and study for compliments rather more than I could endure as a principal.
- (Tennyson)
falter
English
Noun
(-)Verb
(en verb)- He found his legs falter .
- And here he faltered forth his last farewell.
- With faltering speech and visage incomposed.
- Here indeed the power of disinct conception of space and distance falters .
- And remember, comrades, your resolution must never falter .
- Ere her native king / Shall falter under foul rebellion's arms.
- (Halliwell)