languish
C1CEFR level
58/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
To remain in an unpleasant or unwanted situation for a long time without improvement.
The digitization initiative languished for months after its executive sponsor left the company.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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