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pined Definition


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pine2
verb, intr pined, pining
    1. To long or yearn for them or it.
      Thesaurus: desire, yearn, crave, covet, hunger, ache.
      Form: pine for someone (also)
      Form: pine for something
    2. To waste away from grief or longing.
      Thesaurus: waste, languish, wither, decline, dwindle, decay, wilt, weaken, sicken.
      Form: pine away (also)
Etymology: Anglo-Saxon pinian in obsolete sense ‘to torment'.



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