Meanings (ES + gloss)
ajar • languidecer • marchitar
To languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress.
This night shall see the gaudy wreath decline, The roses wither and the lilies pine.
Why pine not I, and die in this distress?
anhelar • ansiar • suspirar
To long, to yearn so much that it causes suffering.
Laura was pining for Bill all the time he was gone.
Praline: "That parrot is definitely deceased. And when I bought it not half an hour ago you assured me that its lack of movement was due to it being tired and shagged out after a l…
añorar
To grieve or mourn for.
afligir • angustiar • atormentar
To inflict pain upon; to torment.
Which way, O Lord, which way can I look, and not see some sad examples of misery? […] [O]ne is pined in prison; another, tortured on the rack; a third, languisheth under the loss o…