Languish is valid Scrabble Word

Is languish a scrabble word?
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Words with Friends YES

8 letters word
12 points in Scrabble
15 points in WWF

Definitions for LANGUISH in dictionary:

VERB:

to lose vitality
(of a person, animal, or plant) lose or lack vitality; grow weak
fail to make progress or be successful
pine with love or grief
assume a sentimentally tender or melancholy expression or tone
be forced to remain in an unpleasant place or situation
suffer neglect or hardship
To become languid or weak; to lose strength or animation; to be or become dull, feeble or spiritless; to pine away; to wither or fade.
To assume an expression of weariness or tender grief, appealing for sympathy.
To cause to droop or pine.

lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
have a desire for something or someone who is not present
become feeble

NOUN:

See Languishiment.

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to lose vigor or vitality

Words related to LANGUISH

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Words that contain LANGUISH

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How to use LANGUISH in a sentence

Therefore either death or the youth for whom I languish can alone end my tortures.
He did not languish, as Cicero did in his exile, or even like Thiers in Switzerland.
The war in the Netherlands had been necessarily suffered to languish, while every eye was fixed on the progress of the Armada, from formation to defeat.
For this end we entered into a long war, of which we still languish under the consequences, squandered the lives of our countrymen, and mortgaged the possessions of our posterity.
So that there is no reason why the hopes of those men, who have devoted themselves to the study of eloquence, should be broken, or why their industry should languish.
Sometimes, her eye was fixed so intently on that golden horizon, and she became so eager to make progress thither, that the little ones, missing her care, did languish or stray.
But in all these convulsions, the primitive doctrines of tyranny and injustice were watched like the sacred fire, and have never for a moment been suffered to languish.
Cellini with his broken leg went back to languish in his prison.
So thine shall be the beauteous prize, while I 460 Must languish in despair, in prison die.
Only grief can ease me while those lashes languish.

These intrigues seem, to have first caused the war to languish, and then produced the recall of the expedition.
The vital powers languish under this oppression, which produces in the European a lassitude of body and a prostration of mind that wholly unfit him for active duties.
It is also but too certain that Leonora left her supposed lover to languish in a dungeon without any reply to his pathetic complaints.
After the departure of her mother, Ann still continued to languish, though she had a nurse who was entirely engrossed by the desire of amusing her.
It was not possible that he, defiant of man and God, could languish under this dread of a midnight visitation or a discovery that never would be made.
Without it, truth will as surely languish and die, as animals or plants will perish without air.
I would have evening classes for the teaching of temper to married couples, only I fear the institution would languish for lack of pupils.
However they might be warped by prejudice against individuals, they did not suffer the war to languish for want of supplies.
While the arms of Great Britain triumphed in Europe and America, her interest was not suffered to languish in other parts of the world.
At her death that spirit began to languish, and a total stagnation of gaiety and good humour ensued.
I would have been transported beyond the State, to languish in some Federal fortress during the pleasure of the oppressor.
Time went on, but the Emperor, wisest of the court, began at last to languish, and to long unceasingly for the fresh, free note of the little brown nightingale.
The lover must be allowed to languish, curiosity must be piqued and satisfied, feeling roused and responded to.
Nothing is more common than for Lovers to complain, resent, languish, despair, and die in dumb Show.
It is too vital to the country to be allowed to languish, however, and it is to be hoped that it may soon be well started upon a new career of usefulness.
Gradually the rough disjointed talk of the sailors began to languish.
And though the revel must languish, yet we attend the refrain of all the melodies in crowning rapture.
And for ten years Madame Scarron was left to languish within the convent walls with never a lover to offer her release.
Himself and a twin brother, when scarcely fifteen, were taken prisoners at Tewkesbury, and for three years left to languish in prison.
In days of yore adored by pilgrim throngs, They languish now without a worshipper.
It was her habit to leave others to languish, and herself to lead them with disdainful vivacity to doing so.
But for his heedless audacity the work of exploration would languish.
It will prosper as its farmers prosper, and languish when they are not doing well.

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