Synonyms of the word

languish

• v. (intransitive) To lose strength and become weak; to be in a state of weakness or sickness.
• v. (intransitive) To pine away in longing for something; to have low spirits, especially from lovesickness.
• v. (intransitive) To live in miserable or disheartening conditions.
• v. (intransitive) To be neglected; to make little progress, be unsuccessful.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To make weak; to weaken, devastate.
• v. (intransitive, now rare) To affect a languid air, especially disingenuously.

ache

• v. (intransitive) To suffer pain; to be the source of, or be in, pain, especially continued dull pain; to…
• v. (transitive, literary, rare) To cause someone or something to suffer pain.
• n. Continued dull pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain.
• n. (obsolete) Parsley.
• n. Rare spelling of aitch.

degenerate

• adj. (of qualities) Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to…
• adj. (of a human or system) Having lost good or desirable qualities.
• adj. (of an encoding or function) Having multiple domain elements correspond to one element of the range.
• adj. (mathematics) A degenerate case is a limiting case in which a class of object changes its nature so as…
• adj. (physics) Having the same quantum energy level.
• n. One who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature.
• v. (intransitive) To lose good or desirable qualities.
• v. (transitive) To cause to lose good or desirable qualities.

deteriorate

• v. (transitive) To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair.
• v. (intransitive) To grow worse; to be impaired in quality; to degenerate.
• v. (informal) slang: to nerf (used in gaming) something which is overpowered.

devolve

• v. (obsolete, transitive) To roll (something) down; to unroll.
• v. (intransitive) To be inherited by someone else; to pass down upon the next person in a succession, especially…
• v. (transitive) To delegate (a responsibility, duty, etc.) on or upon someone.
• v. (intransitive) To fall as a duty or responsibility on or upon someone.
• v. (intransitive) To degenerate; to break down.

drop

• n. A small mass of liquid just large enough to hold its own weight via surface tension, usually one that…
• n. The space or distance below a cliff or other high position into which someone or something could fall.
• n. A fall, descent; an act of dropping.
• n. A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, sometimes associated with criminal…
• n. An instance of dropping supplies or making a delivery, sometimes associated with delivery of supplies…
• n. (chiefly Britain) A small amount of an alcoholic beverage.
• n. (chieflt, Britain, when used with the definite article (the drop) alcoholic spirits in general.
• n. (Ireland, informal) A single measure of whisky.
• n. A small, round, sweet piece of hard candy, e.g. a lemon drop; a lozenge.
• n. (American football) A dropped pass.
• n. (American football) Short for drop-back or drop back.
• n. (Rugby football) A drop-kick.
• n. In a woman, the difference between bust circumference and hip circumference; in a man, the difference…
• n. (sports, usually with definite article "the") relegation from one division to a lower one.
• n. (video games, online gaming) Any item dropped by defeated enemies.
• n. (music) A point in a song, usually electronic-styled music such as dubstep, house, trance or trap, where…
• n. (US, banking, dated) An unsolicited credit card issue.
• n. The vertical length of a hanging curtain.
• n. That which resembles or hangs like a liquid drop: a hanging diamond ornament, an earring, a glass pendant…
• n. (architecture) A gutta.
• n. A mechanism for lowering something, such as: a trapdoor; a machine for lowering heavy weights onto a ship's…
• n. (slang) (With definite article) A gallows; a sentence of hanging.
• n. A drop press or drop hammer.
• n. (engineering) The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
• n. (nautical) The depth of a square sail; generally applied to the courses only.
• v. (intransitive) To fall in droplets (of a liquid).
• v. (transitive) To drip (a liquid).
• v. (intransitive) Generally, to fall (straight down).
• v. (transitive, ergative) To let fall; to allow to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip…
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops.
• v. (intransitive) To sink quickly to the ground.
• v. (intransitive) To fall dead, or to fall in death.
• v. (intransitive) To come to an end (by not being kept up); to stop.
• v. (transitive) To mention casually or incidentally, usually in conversation.
• v. (transitive, slang) To part with or spend (money).
• v. (transitive) To cease concerning oneself over; to have nothing more to do with (a subject, discussion…
• v. (intransitive) To lessen, decrease, or diminish in value, condition, degree, etc.
• v. (transitive) To let (a letter etc.) fall into a postbox; to send (a letter or message).
• v. (transitive) To make (someone or something) fall to the ground from a blow, gunshot etc.; to bring down,…
• v. (transitive, linguistics) To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter etc.).
• v. (cricket, of a fielder) To fail to make a catch from a batted ball that would have lead to the batsman…
• v. (transitive, slang) To swallow (a drug), particularly LSD.
• v. (transitive) To dispose (of); get rid of; to remove; to lose.
• v. (transitive) To eject; to dismiss; to cease to include, as if on a list.
• v. (Rugby football) To score [a goal] by means of a drop-kick.
• v. (transitive, slang) To impart.
• v. (transitive, music, colloquial) To release to the public.
• v. (transitive, music) To play a portion of music in the manner of a disc jockey.
• v. (intransitive, music, colloquial) To enter public distribution.
• v. (transitive, music) To tune (a guitar string, etc.) to a lower note.
• v. (transitive) To cancel or end a scheduled event, project or course.
• v. (transitive, fast food) To cook, especially by deep-frying or grilling.
• v. (intransitive, of a voice) To lower in timbre, often relating to puberty.
• v. (intransitive, of a sound or song) To lower in pitch, tempo, key, or other quality.
• v. (intransitive, of people) To visit informally; used with in or by.
• v. To give birth to.
• v. To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop.
• v. (slang, of the testicles) To hang lower and begin producing sperm due to puberty.

fade

• adj. (archaic) Strong; bold; doughty.
• adj. (archaic) Weak; insipid; tasteless; commonplace.
• n. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the right. See slice, hook,…
• n. A haircut where the hair is short or shaved on the sides of the head and longer on top. See also high-top…
• n. (slang) A fight.
• n. (cinematography) A gradual decrease in the brightness of a shot (as a means of cutting to a new scene).
• v. (intransitive) To become faded; to grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither,…
• v. (intransitive) To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting…
• v. (intransitive) To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish.
• v. (transitive) To cause to fade.
• v. (transitive, gambling) To bet against.

hanker

• v. To crave, want or desire.

long

• adj. Having much distance from one terminating point on an object or an area to another terminating point (usually…
• adj. Having great duration.
• adj. Seemingly lasting a lot of time, because it is boring or tedious or tiring.
• adj. (Britain, dialect) Not short; tall.
• adj. (finance) Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities or other financial instruments with the aim…
• adj. (cricket) Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent…
• adj. (tennis, of a ball or a shot) That land beyond the baseline (and therefore is out).
• adj. Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.
• adv. Over a great distance in space.
• adv. For a particular duration.
• adv. For a long duration.
• n. (linguistics) A long vowel.
• n. (programming) A long integer variable, twice the size of an int, two or four times the size of a short,…
• n. (finance) An entity with a long position in an asset.
• n. (music) A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.
• v. (transitive, finance) To take a long position in.
• v. (intransitive) To await, aspire, desire greatly (something to occur or to be true).
• adj. (archaic) On account of, because of.
• v. (archaic) To be appropriate to, to pertain or belong to.
• n. longitude.

pine

• n. (countable, uncountable) Any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus.
• n. (countable) Any tree (usually coniferous) which resembles a member of this genus in some respect.
• n. (uncountable) The wood of this tree.
• n. (archaic except South Africa) A pineapple.
• n. (archaic) A painful longing.
• v. To feel irritated; to reflect on a problem. ; to think something over.
• v. To languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress; to droop.
• v. (intransitive) To long, to yearn so much that it causes suffering.
• v. (transitive) To grieve or mourn for.
• v. (transitive) To inflict pain upon; to torment; to torture; to afflict.

waste

• n. Excess of material, useless by-products or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
• n. Excrement or urine.
• n. A waste land; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
• n. A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
• n. A large tract of uncultivated land.
• n. (historical) The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays…
• n. A vast expanse of water.
• n. A disused mine or part of one.
• n. The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.
• n. Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.
• n. Gradual loss or decay.
• n. A decaying of the body by disease; wasting away.
• n. (rare) Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; See "to lay waste".
• n. (law) A cause of action which may be brought by the owner of a future interest in property against the…
• n. (geology) Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the…
• adj. (now rare) Uncultivated, uninhabited.
• adj. Barren; desert.
• adj. Rejected as being defective; eliminated as being worthless; produced in excess.
• adj. Superfluous; needless.
• adj. Dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
• adj. Unfortunate; disappointing.
• v. (transitive) to devastate, destroy.
• v. (transitive) To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly.
• v. (transitive, slang) To kill; to murder.
• v. (transitive) To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to…
• v. (intransitive) Gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
• v. (intransitive) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.
• v. (law) To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences,…

weaken

• v. (transitive) To make weaker.
• v. (intransitive) To become weaker.

yearn

• v. (intransitive, construed with for) To long, have a strong desire (for something).
• v. (intransitive, construed with for) To long for something in the past with melancholy, nostalgically.
• v. (intransitive) To be pained or distressed; to grieve; to mourn.
• v. (transitive) To pain; to grieve; to vex.
• v. (Scotland) To curdle, as milk.
• n. (nonstandard) yen; yearning.

yen

• n. The unit of Japanese currency (symbol: ¥) since 1871, divided into 100 sen.
• n. A coin or note worth one yen.
• n. A strong desire, urge, or yearning.
• v. (transitive) To have a strong desire for.
• n. Opium.