pining
present 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
Examplesofpining
pining
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
This is followed by the so-called 'pangs' of grief, intense episodes ofpiningfor the lost person accompanied by tearfulness, anxiety and/or anger.
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In these fights everyone ispiningfor a new trial.
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The people arepiningfor news, and they are being completely bottled up and not getting the truth.
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They arepiningto be told something and have the curtain lifted up just a little.
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We are pushing them out of the modern igloo and letting them live unloved and lonely, and oftenpiningaway.
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It is no goodpiningfor those days, because the fact is that businesses are going to grow larger.
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We must recognise that modern training techniques can substantially reduce training time; that is one reason why it is no usepiningafter the old apprenticeship scheme.
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They are, in general,piningfor planning.
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Are theypiningfor democratic instituions there?
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Land racketeers arepiningfor the good old days.
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In this case she would be lamenting andpiningafter her son, hoping that he was okay, and not her lover.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The fianc is leftpiningfor the huntsman, eventually forgetting about the boa but never of him.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.She exhumes the body and buries the head in a pot of basil which she tends obsessively, whilepiningaway.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Stories are recounted of men who married bunian women but,piningfor their families they left behind, decided to leave the bunian community.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Phaedra has been left alone to care for the palace, and she finds herselfpiningfor the forests and the hunt.
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