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Definition of languish : 1. See Languishiment.
2. To assume an expression of weariness or tender grief, appealing for sympathy.
3. 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.
4. To cause to droop or pine.

Synonyms:

pass, neutralise, desolate, yearn, hunger, smart, knock off, waste, neutralize, desire, sink, pine, fleet, yen, blow, lay waste to, fade, consume, ravage, fail, hurt, pine away, deteriorate, scourge, do in, fizzle, need, wither, ache, macerate, run off, pass off, strong, increase, blow over, degenerate, weaken, flag, suffer, squander, health, devastate, ware, liquidate, melt, emaciate, evanesce, wane, decline, want, long, hanker, droop, rot

Usage examples:

• You will not die of fatigue, it is true; many a workman in the towns would laugh at the lightness of your duties; but you languish from poverty. - "The Shadow of the Cathedral", Vicente Blasco Ibañez.
• The white will tell you how I languish, And the red express my anguish: The white my innocence displaying The red my martyrdom betraying. - "A History of English Literature Elizabethan Literature", George Saintsbury.
• If he gain the victory, he generally has only to begin again and fight anew, till the war is over; if he be beaten, he may probably lose his life upon the spot, or be taken prisoner by the enemy, in which case he may languish several months in a dreary prison, in want of all the necessaries of life. - "The History of Sandford and Merton", Thomas Day.