Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Punishment; torture.
  • noun Suffering.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Languishing; drooping; wasting away, as with longing.
  • adjective Wasting; consuming.

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  • verb Present participle of pine.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a feeling of deep longing

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Examples

  • Reading the log linked above, you see that the participants do have perspective on their reality, even if you think their pining is a little ren-faire cheesy.

    inkblurt · The end of a world. 2006

  • There is no sense in pining away for what might have been, or resentment of what did happen, only to recognize the forces which were, and are at work in the regime which took power.

    Think Progress » ThinkFast: April 25, 2006 2006

  • There is no sense in pining away for what might have been, or resentment of what did happen, only to recognize the forces which were, and are at work in the regime which took power.

    Think Progress » ThinkFast: April 25, 2006 2006

  • Ah, Chico, in pining for the pleasures and excitements which lie beyond these wires, take also into account the perils and hardships.

    Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883

  • On top of that, participants reported feeling more yearning for their loved ones—a condition researchers called pining—than either anger or depression, perhaps the two cornerstone stages in the Kübler-Ross model.

    The Truth About Grief Ruth Davis Konigsberg 2011

  • On top of that, participants reported feeling more yearning for their loved ones—a condition researchers called pining—than either anger or depression, perhaps the two cornerstone stages in the Kübler-Ross model.

    The Truth About Grief Ruth Davis Konigsberg 2011

  • There was no "pining" in Hetty's busy and sensible soul; but there had been planted in it a germ of new life, whose slow quickening and growth were perplexing and disturbing elements: not as yet did she recognize them; she only felt the disturbance, and its link with Dr. Eben was sufficiently clear to make her manner to him undergo an indefinable change.

    Hetty's Strange History Anonymous

  • She learned how Aunt Winnie was "pining" for her home and her boy; she read the letters, with their untold love and longing; she saw the look on the boyish face when Dan, too mindful of his promise to Father Mack to speak plainly, said he 'reckoned she wouldn't be here long if he didn't get her somehow _home_.'

    Killykinick 1888

  • She told of the attic home over the Mulligans 'for which Aunt Winnie was "pining," and of the dreams that Dan dreamed.

    Killykinick 1888

  • Her "pining" is represented most vividly about four minutes in.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2010

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