languishing

Happy, Monimia, he to whom these sighs, / These tears, and all these languishings, are paid!

I'm languishing for you.

Sami was languishing in jail, awaiting his trial.

She sat in the shade, languishing in the heat and fanning herself with a glossy magazine.

Bones that have been languishing in obscurity for nearly 80 years at a London museum may actually belong to the oldest known dinosaur.

Tom is languishing in a hell-hole prison in Bangladesh.