languish
verb (formal)- [intransitive] languish (in something)
to be forced to stay somewhere or suffer something unpleasant for a long time 被迫滞留；长期受苦；受煎熬 - [intransitive]
to become weaker or fail to make progress 变得衰弱；未能取得进展
Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘become faint, feeble, or ill’): from Old French languiss-, lengthened stem of languir ‘languish’, from a variant of Latin languere, related to laxus ‘loose, lax’.