pined
past simple and past participle ofpine
pine
verb[I]
uk/paɪn/us/paɪn/(alsopine away)
tobecomeincreasinglythinandweakbecause ofunhappiness,especiallyafter thedeathof alovedperson:
Carterdiedin 1904 after anaccidentand Leno pinedawayanddiedsixmonthslater.
Synonym
languish
Becoming and making less strong
- abate
- abatement
- adulterate
- adulterated
- adulteration
- emasculation
- enervate
- enervating
- enfeeble
- enfeebled
- fade
- hedge
- melt
- relieve
- sink
- totter
- tottering
- turn to jellyidiom
- wane
- waste away
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Expressing and showing feelings
Phrasal verb
pine forsomething/someone
Examplesofpined
pined
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
The catpinedand began wilting away, and the fanner had a very good excuse for getting rid of it.
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When he had to retire hepinedso much for his lost work that after some time he could stand it no longer.
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But the horse, willing though it was,pinedaway and died.
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They were distressed to find that the boy, removed from familiar surroundings, hadpined, had refused to eat and had lost weight.
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Shepinedfor her warm sea-home in the southwest, and sent a message to her people.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Her condition continued for two or three years, until shepinedaway to skin and bones and ended her sorrowful life.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Overcome by melancholy in consequence of that last disaster, hepinedaway and died in 1559.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.For over a hundred years, the world haspinedfor a return to the lap of myth.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Incredibly narcissistic, she ispinedfor by almost every male (teachers included) in the school, and delights in crushing their hopes.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.So bothpinedfor each other.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Odo hadpinedfor her for years, while she was oblivious.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.She alsopinedfor her husband.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.She is said to have mixed his ashes in her daily drink, and to have graduallypinedaway during the two years that she survived him.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Ann is said to havepinedso desperately for her lover that she fell seriously ill.
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