Languishes [verb]

The public ear has become dainty, fastidious, hypercritical; hence the Ballad-Singer languishes and dies.

He languishes in an unchanging environment and finds monotony almost unbearable.

It is the Osseous or one who is largely of this type who languishes in prison through long years, refusing to retract.

Ah, how desolate sounds the drip, drip of a ceaseless rain, when conversation languishes and the ear has time to listen!

This obstinacy in right proportion constitutes will, and without will life languishes and projects die a-borning.

From these internal conflicts the body suffers; and from the agitation it undergoes, languishes and decays.

If it be left to itself, it flags and languishes; agitation only gives it grace and vigour.

The caste system does not thrive in the geography class and snobbery languishes.

It is withdrawn from the already insufficient amount in circulation, and legitimate business languishes.

In its immediate vicinity all vegetation languishes and dies, and the shores are covered as with a coat of salt.