Languish
101pine — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. languish, long, crave; wither, droop. See dejection, disease, desire. II (Roget s IV) n. Varieties of pine include: white, stone, mugo, whitebark, foxtail, bristlecone, nut, singleleaf, piñon,… …
102sicken — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. ail; languish, droop, waste away; cloy, weary; make ill, afflict; nauseate, revolt. See disease, pain, dislike. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To contract a disease] Syn. become ill, become sick, take sick,… …
103sink — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. founder, drown, go down; ebb, wane, decline, lapse, settle, subside, precipitate; retrograde, go downhill; languish, droop, flag; despond; fail, deepen, dig, lower; debase, abase, bring low; suppress …
104vegetate — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. stagnate, exist. See existence, inactivity. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To germinate] Syn. sprout, bud, blossom; see bloom , grow 1 . 2. [To stagnate] Syn. hibernate, stagnate, languish; see decay ,… …
105wither — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. waste, decline, droop, wilt, fade, decay; contract, shrivel, pine, decline, languish; blast, destroy, burn, scorch; cut, scathe. See deterioration, dryness. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. shrivel, shrink,… …
106weaken — I (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To become weaker] Syn. lessen, lose, decrease, relapse, soften, relax, droop, fail, wane, crumble, halt, limp, languish, fade, decline, abate, totter, tremble, flag, faint, wilt, lose spirit, become disheartened, fail in… …
107Inactivity — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Inactivity >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 inactivity inactivity Sgm: N 1 inaction inaction &c. 681 Sgm: N 1 inertness inertness &c. 172 Sgm: N 1 obstinacy obstinacy &c. 606 GRP: N 2 …
108relish — [16] Ultimately, relax [15], release [13], and relish are all the same word. They go back to Latin relaxāre ‘loosen’, a compound verb formed from the prefix re ‘back’ and laxāre, a derivative of laxus ‘loose’ (from which English gets languish… …
109“Poe-et’s Nightmare, The“ — Poem (303 lines); written in 1916 (see SL1.59). First published in the Vagrant(July 1918); rpt. WT (July 1952) (central section only; titled “Aletheia Phrikodes”). One of HPL’s longest poems, and perhaps his most ambitious single weird poem …
110pine — verb 1) I am pining away from love Syn: languish, decline, weaken, waste away, wilt, wither, fade, sicken, droop; brood, mope, moon 2) he was pining for his son Syn …
