languish russian

• раста́ять

  to melt, to thaw

  to melt

  to melt away, to dwindle, to wane, to vanish

  to waste away, to pine away, to languish

• стона́ть

  to moan, to groan, to suffer, to languish

• ма́яться

  to toil, to suffer, to languish

• вя́нуть

  to wither, to wilt, to shrivel

  to fade, to languish, to droop

• томи́ться

  to languish, to pine, to suffer, to be tormented

  to be bored, to be weary, to be worn out

  to stew, to simmer, to braise

• прозяба́ть

  to vegetate, to languish, to lead a dreary existence

  to scrape by, to eke out a miserable existence, to live from hand to mouth

• изныва́ть

  to languish, to pine, to be consumed (with longing)

  to grow bored, to be bored to death

• затоскова́ть

  to begin to languish

• разомле́ть

  to languish, to grow languid

• присыха́ть

  to dry onto (something), to stick by drying, to dry up and stick

  to pine (for someone), to languish, to be lovesick

• истоми́вший

  having exhausted, having wearied, having made languish

• то́мный

  languorous, languishing, dreamy, tender

  languid, listless, weary, faint

• томи́мый

  languishing, tormented, exhausted, wearied

• томи́тельный

  agonizing languishing tedius (adj)

• томя́щийся

  languishing, pining, suffering, tormented

• изныва́ющий

  languishing, pining, tormented, suffering

• уныва́ющий

  desponding, languishing, sad, doleful

• прозяба́ющий

  vegetating, languishing, leading a miserable existence

• ча́хнущий

  pining away, withering, languishing, sickly

• изнемога́ющий

  exhausted, languishing, fainting, weakening

• прозяба́вший

  vegetating, languishing, eking out an existence, leading a miserable life

• томи́вшийся

  languishing, pining, tormented, suffering

• истомлённый

  exhausted, weary, worn out, wearied

  tormented, tortured, languishing

• мле́ющий

  languishing, swooning, blissful, ecstatic

• изнемога́вший

  exhausted, weary, faint, languishing

• изныва́вший

  languishing, pining, suffering greatly, worn out

• мле́вший

  languishing, swooning, faint

• ма́явший

  having suffered, tormented, troubled, languishing

• ча́хнувший

  withered, pining, languishing

• захире́вший

  withered, languished, emaciated, feeble

• кукова́вший

  having cuckooed, that cuckooed

  having languished, having lived alone, who waited idly

Examples

• Она долго томилась в полоне у соседей.

  She languished in captivity among her neighbors for a long time.

• Она томилась в ожидании его письма.

  She languished while waiting for his letter.

• Она маялась в очереди целый час.

  She languished in the queue for an entire hour.

• Не хочу прозябать на скучной работе.

  I don't want to languish in a boring job.

• Пленник, томящийся в темнице, потерял надежду.

  The prisoner languishing in the dungeon had lost hope.

• Томившийся в тюрьме поэт писал стихи.

  The poet, who had languished in prison, wrote poems.

• Он выглядел как человек, прозябающий в глухой деревне.

  He looked like a man languishing in a remote village.

• Растение, прозябающее в тени, почти не растёт.

  A plant languishing in the shade hardly grows at all.

• Человек, прозябавший в глуши, наконец переехал в город.

  The person who had been languishing in the back of beyond finally moved to the city.

• Талант, прозябавший без внимания, вдруг стал известен.

  The talent that had languished without recognition suddenly became known.