чахнуть — meaning in English

English meaning

• languish verb To gradually lose strength, vitality, or spirit, especially over a long period of neglect or hardship.
• pine noun An evergreen coniferous tree with needle-like leaves, or the wood it produces.
• starve verb To suffer or die from lack of food.

Senses

чахнуть is used for these senses in English:

• emaciate (intransitive) To become extremely thin or wasted.
• languish (intransitive) To lose strength and become weak; to be in a state of weakness or sickness. [from 14th c.]
• pine (intransitive) To languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress.
• starve (intransitive, obsolete) To die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away.
• waste away (idiomatic) To lose energy or become weak and feeble.

pine — full definition

1. noun An evergreen coniferous tree with needle-like leaves, or the wood it produces.
2. verb To long for something painfully, especially someone absent, or to waste away from grief or longing.

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