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{"id": "languish", "metadata": {"operation": "retrieve", "provider": "Oxford University Press", "schema": "RetrieveEntry"}, "results": [{"id": "languish", "language": "en-gb", "lexicalEntries": [{"derivatives": [{"id": "languisher", "text": "languisher"}], "entries": [{"etymologies": ["Middle English (in the sense \u2018become faint, feeble, or ill\u2019): from Old French languiss-, lengthened stem of languir \u2018languish\u2019, from a variant of Latin languere, related to laxus \u2018loose, lax\u2019"], "grammaticalFeatures": [{"id": "intransitive", "text": "Intransitive", "type": "Subcategorization"}], "pronunciations": [{"audioFile": "https://audio.oxforddictionaries.com/en/mp3/languish_gb_1.mp3", "dialects": ["British English"], "phoneticNotation": "IPA", "phoneticSpelling": "\u02c8la\u014b\u0261w\u026a\u0283"}], "senses": [{"definitions": ["(of a person, animal, or plant) lose or lack vitality; grow weak"], "examples": [{"text": "plants may appear to be languishing simply because they are dormant"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0564790.006", "shortDefinitions": ["grow weak"], "subsenses": [{"definitions": ["fail to make progress or be successful"], "examples": [{"text": "Kelso languish near the bottom of the Scottish First Division"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0564790.012", "shortDefinitions": ["fail to make progress"]}, {"definitions": ["pine with love or grief"], "examples": [{"text": "she still languished after Richard"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0564790.013", "registers": [{"id": "archaic", "text": "Archaic"}], "shortDefinitions": ["pine with love or grief"], "synonyms": [{"language": "en", "text": "pine for"}, {"language": "en", "text": "yearn for"}, {"language": "en", "text": "ache for"}, {"language": "en", "text": "long for"}, {"language": "en", "text": "sigh for"}, {"language": "en", "text": "desire"}, {"language": "en", "text": "want"}, {"language": "en", "text": "hanker after"}, {"language": "en", "text": "carry a torch for"}], "thesaurusLinks": [{"entry_id": "languish", "sense_id": "t_en_gb0008537.003"}]}, {"definitions": ["assume a sentimentally tender or melancholy expression or tone"], "examples": [{"text": "when a visitor comes in, she smiles and languishes"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0564790.014", "registers": [{"id": "archaic", "text": "Archaic"}], "shortDefinitions": ["assume tender or melancholy expression"]}], "synonyms": [{"language": "en", "text": "weaken"}, {"language": "en", "text": "grow weak"}, {"language": "en", "text": "deteriorate"}, {"language": "en", "text": "decline"}, {"language": "en", "text": "go into a decline"}], "thesaurusLinks": [{"entry_id": "languish", "sense_id": "t_en_gb0008537.001"}]}, {"definitions": ["be forced to remain in an unpleasant place or situation"], "examples": [{"text": "he has been languishing in jail since 1974"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0564790.016", "shortDefinitions": ["be kept in unpleasant place"], "synonyms": [{"language": "en", "text": "waste away"}, {"language": "en", "text": "rot"}, {"language": "en", "text": "decay"}, {"language": "en", "text": "wither away"}, {"language": "en", "text": "moulder"}, {"language": "en", "text": "be abandoned"}, {"language": "en", "text": "be neglected"}, {"language": "en", "text": "be forgotten"}, {"language": "en", "text": "suffer"}], "thesaurusLinks": [{"entry_id": "languish", "sense_id": "t_en_gb0008537.002"}]}]}], "language": "en-gb", "lexicalCategory": {"id": "verb", "text": "Verb"}, "text": "languish"}], "type": "headword", "word": "languish"}], "word": "languish"}
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