verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
languish in obscurity (= to fail to become well-known or successful )
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Until recently her talent has languished in obscurity.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
years
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A law to encourage the industry to take back and reuse its rubble has languished for three years in the environment ministry.
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And so the story languished for many years .