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  • 101lamentation — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Act of mourning Nouns 1. lamentation, lament, wail, complaint, plaint, murmur, mutter, grumble, groan, growl, moan, whine, whimper, sob, sigh, cry, outcry, scream, howl. Slang, gripe, beef, bellyaching.… …

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  • 102languish — verb 1》 grow weak or feeble.     ↘archaic pine with love or grief. 2》 be kept in an unpleasant place or situation: he was languishing in jail. Derivatives languisher noun languishment noun (archaic). Origin ME: from OFr. languiss , lengthened… …

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  • 103languor — n. 1. Feebleness, debility, languidness, faintness, languishment. 2. Dulness, torpidness, listlessness, heartlessness, heaviness, ennui …

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  • 104mountain — mountain, mount, peak, alp, volcano, mesa denote a relatively steep and high elevation of land. Mountain, the ordinary and inclusive term, varies somewhat in meaning according to locality. In general it designates an elevation higher and steeper… …

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  • 105languor — n 1. weakness, faintness, feebleness, frailty, enfeeblement; debility, Pathol. asthenia, Pathol. adynemia, Pathol. atony; decrepitude, infirmness, infirmity, sickliness, invalidism; strain, eyestrain, fatigue, tiredness, enervation, exhaustion;… …

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  • 106sluggishness — n 1. languor, languidness, laggardness, Archaic. languishment; inertia, inactivity, stagnation, torpor, supineness, Archaic. lenitude, (in the Middle East) kef; lifelessness, inanimateness, inanimation, spiritlessness, listlessness, apathy,… …

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  • 107torpor — n 1. inactivity, inertia, stagnation, supineness, Archaic. lentitude, (in the Middle East) kef; life lessness, inanimateness, inanimation, deadness. 2. dormancy, dormience, latency; sleepiness, slumber, drowsiness, doziness, somnolence. 3.… …

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  • 108languish — [laŋ′gwish] vi. [ME languishen < extended stem of OFr languir < L languescere < languere, to be weary: see LANGUID] 1. to lose vigor or vitality; fail in health; become weak; droop 2. to live under distressing conditions; continue in a… …

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  • 109languish — v.intr. 1 be or grow feeble; lose or lack vitality. 2 put on a sentimentally tender or languid look. Phrases and idioms: languish for droop or pine for. languish under suffer under (esp. depression, confinement, etc.). Derivatives: languisher n.… …

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  • 110lan|guish|ment — «LANG gwihsh muhnt», noun. 1. a languishing: »Yet do I sometimes feel a languishment For skies Italian (Keats). 2. a drooping, pining condition. 3. a languishing look or manner …

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