Definition of "languishes" [languishes]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of languish. (verb)

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• "“Free labor languishes and becomes degrading when put in competition with slave labor,” said a leading member of the party in 1860, “and idleness, poverty, and vice, among large classes of non-slaveholders take the place of industry and thrift and virtue.”"
• "He or she languishes in a system that, despite the best efforts of commanders, medical providers and social workers, delays their return to civilian life."
• ""Decades of U.S. policy are nibbled away or jettisoned altogether to reestablish relations with the penal colony that goes by the name of the Republic of Cuba, and yet Fidel doesn't phone or even write--he arrests a State Department contractor who's down there doing humanitarian work and throws him into one of Cuba's notorious prisons, where he languishes still, more than a month later.""
• "“Free labor languishes and becomes degrading when put in competition with slave labor,” said a leading member of the party in 1860, “and idleness, poverty, and vice, among large classes of non-slaveholders take the place of industry and thrift and virtue.”"
• ""We cannot continue to see chief executive pay rise at 13% a year while performance on the stock exchange languishes well behind," Cable said."