pine for
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.
noun
5.
Archaic. painful longing.
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pine1 (paɪn) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | longleaf pine nut pine pitch pine See also Scots pine any evergreen resinous coniferous tree of the genus Pinus, of the N hemisphere, with long needle-shaped leaves and brown cones: family Pinaceae |
| 2. | any other tree or shrub of the family Pinaceae |
| 3. | the wood of any of these trees |
| 4. | any of various similar but unrelated plants, such as ground pine and screw pine |
| [Old English pīn, from Latin pīnus pine] | |
| pine2 (paɪn) | |
| —vb (often foll by away) | |
| 1. | (intr; |
| 2. | to become ill, feeble, or thin through worry, longing, etc |
| 3. | archaic (tr) to mourn or grieve for |
| [Old English pīnian to torture, from pīn pain, from Medieval Latin pēna, from Latin poena | |
| Pine (paɪn) | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
pine
"coniferous tree," O.E. pintreow, the first element from L. pinus, from PIE *pei- "fat, sap, pitch" (cf. Skt. pituh "juice, sap, resin," pitudaruh "pine tree," Gk. pitys "pine tree," L. pinguis "fat"). Pine-top "cheap illicit whiskey," first recorded 1858, Southern U.S. slang.
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.
Intransitive sense of "to languish, waste away" is first recorded c.1440.
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