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Languishes vs Starving - What's the difference?

languishes | starving |

As verbs the difference between languishes and starving

is that languishes is (languish) while starving is .

As a noun starving is

starvation.

languishes

English

Verb

(head)
  • (languish)

  • languish

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • To lose strength and become weak; to be in a state of weakness or sickness.
  • * Bible, 2 Esdras viii. 31
  • We do languish of such diseases.
  • To pine away in longing for something; to have low spirits, especially from lovesickness.
  • He languished without his girlfriend
  • To live in miserable or disheartening conditions.
  • He languished in prison for years
  • To be neglected; to make little progress, be unsuccessful.
  • The case languished for years before coming to trial.
  • (obsolete) To make weak; to weaken, devastate.
  • * 1815 , Jane Austen, Emma
  • 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)

    starving

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Joseph Stiglitz)
  • , volume=188, issue=26, page=19, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Globalisation is about taxes too , passage=It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • starvation
  • * 1868 , Margaret Carrington, Ab-Sa-Ra-Ka, Land of Massacre