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verb (used without object)
1.
to yearn deeply; suffer with longing; long painfully (often followed by for): to pine for one's home and family.
2.
to fail gradually in health or vitality from grief, regret, or longing (often followed by away): Separated by their families, the lovers pined away.
3.
Archaic. to be discontented; fret.
verb (used with object)
4.
Archaic. to suffer grief or regret over.
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noun
5.
Archaic. painful longing.
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Word Origin & History
pine
O.E. pinian "torture, torment, afflict, cause to suffer," from *pine "pain, torture, punishment," possibly ult. from L. poena "punishment, penalty," from Gk. poine (see penal). A Latin word that rode into Germanic (cf. M.Du. pinen, O.H.G. pinon, O.N. pina) with Christianity.
EXPANDIntransitive sense of "to languish, waste away" is first recorded c.1440.
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