Terms vs Languished - What's the difference?
terms | languished |
(languish)
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
As a noun terms
is .As a verb languished is
(languish).languished
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Verb
(head)languish
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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)