Languish meaning

Verb: languish

Pronunciation: (lang-gwish)
Languish meaning :

• To become weak, feeble or lose vigor, pine away
• Have a desire for something or someone who is not present

Joshua Feinman – If the economy roars back, you can always take the cuts back. But suppose you’re wrong on the other side, and the economy continues to languish? With the slack already in the markets, inflation is likely to move lower still.

Sample sentences:

1. The prisoner has languished for years in jail.
2. He languished for drugs.
3. I agree with them, the stock has languished.
4. It’s an appropriate example of the new corporate governance since the stock has languished for so long.
5. Anyone who lives in the future languishes in the present.
6. He just languished after his wife died in an accident.
7. Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!
8. If a product isn’t selling, I want to get it out of there because it’s taking up space that can be devoted to another part of my line that moves. Besides, having a product languish on the shelves doesn’t do much for our image.
9. Any time there’s silence like this in a case, the parties have got to be talking. Cases don’t just languish unless there’s something else going on.
10. Meanwhile many political prisoners continue to languish unjustly, proof that this nation’s talk about reconciliation is nothing but empty rhetoric.
11. Bush needs pretty quickly to turn this economy around. If we languish for the next two years, it’ll be the last two years of Bush’s presidency.
12. The moderate weather is really helping push prices lower. As long as the oil keeps coming and demand languishes I see no reason for prices to rise.
13. There is a tendency for the state to let them languish a bit in our facilities and we just can’t have that now.
14. Expect more throughout the summer. The number of companies that are running out of cash or are going to be in deep financial trouble probably heightens during the summer as sales languish when consumes are away from their PCs.
15. If you think about what has really led the Nasdaq for the past six months, the answer has been exceptional growth rates. If you’re a company with these phenomenal growth rates, your stock has gone to the moon; if you actually make money, you’ve languished. That’s been a reversal, and that is good for right now. So if you look at areas such as semiconductors, enterprise hardware, software and wireless I think these types of companies are all going to all deliver strong earnings.