Word: languished
Part of speech: Verb
Syllables: lan
guished
Definition: Simple past tense and past participle of languish; lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
Morphemes:
Affix: languish
Language: en
PoS: Verb
Meaning: To lose strength and become weak; to be in a state of weakness or sickness.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: langueo
Language: la
Decoded: langueo
PoS: Verb
Meaning: I am faint, weak.
Affix: -ed
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form past tenses of (regular) verbs. In linguistics, it is used for the base form of any past form. See -t for a variant.