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Viraam Rao Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary

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Is the word languish appropriate in both the sentences:
"If you don't exercise regularly, you shall languish"
"Study well or else you shall languish in your exams"
  

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It doesn't sound right in either instance to me. Languish usually suggests being in an undesirable state and making no progress out of it.

— Blue Jay

  • It doesn't sound right in either instance to me.
  • Languish usually suggests being in an undesirable state and making no progress out of it.
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It doesn't sound right in either instance to me. Languish usually suggests being in an undesirable state and making no progress out of it.
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Ohh ok. Can you apprise me of another sentence where languish is appropriate.
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Viraam RaoOhh ok. Can you apprise me of another sentence where languish is appropriate.
The crops were languishing during the prolonged dry spell, but they are flourishing now that we've had some rain.
There are thousands of people in the northern part of the country who have been languishing in refugee camps since the civil war broke out.
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Viraam Rao"If you don't exercise regularly, you shall languish" "Study well or else you shall languish in your exams"
By the way "will" is a better choice than "shall".

CJ
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Thanks for the sentences! I have a doubt. Oxford Dictionary also states(apart from your definition):

Languish: (Of a person or other living thing) lose or lack vitality; grow weak or feeble
So would it be right to say "Gulliver languished after his arduous struggle for life."
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