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languished
verb as in droop; become dull, listless
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Then, as if the former president’s wish had come true, the project languished for months without a distributor.
Amber Thurman, 28, languished in a suburban Atlanta hospital for 20 hours before doctors performed a D&C to treat sepsis that resulted from an incomplete abortion.
Some said they languished in pain until they were deported because they couldn’t communicate a need for care.
As the bills languished in the Assembly on Saturday, reparations advocates gathered in the Capitol Rotunda to lobby lawmakers.
More than 90 of their clients are now on the waiting list, where some have languished over a year and a half.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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