Cease, fond nature, cease thy strife, And let me languish into
life.
Pope.
For the fields of Heshbon languish.
Is. xvi. 8.
2. To assume an expression of weariness or tender grief, appealing for
sympathy. Tennyson.
Syn. -- To pine; wither; fade; droop; faint.
Lan"guish (?), v. i. To cause to droop or pine. [Obs.] Shak. Dryden.