Pine \Pine\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pined; p. pr. & vb. n.
Pining.] [AS. p[imac]nan to torment, fr. p[imac]n torment.
See 1st Pine, Pain, n. & v.]
1. To inflict pain upon; to torment; to torture; to afflict.
[Obs.] --Chaucer. Shak.
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That people that pyned him to death. --Piers
Plowman.
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One is pined in prison, another tortured on the
rack. --Bp. Hall.
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2. To grieve or mourn for. [R.] --Milton.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Pining \Pin"ing\, a.
1. Languishing; drooping; wasting away, as with longing.
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2. Wasting; consuming. "The pining malady of France." --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
pining
n : a feeling of deep longing
WordNet (r) 2.0
100 Moby Thesaurus words for "pining":
Heimweh, aching, agony, anguish, bowed-down, care, carking care,
cast down, coming apart, cracking, crumbling, dashed, decadent,
declining, degenerate, dejected, depressed, desiderium, despairing,
despondent, desponding, deteriorating, discouraged, disheartened,
disintegrating, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, draining,
drooping, droopy, dwindling, ebbing, effete, fading, failing,
falling, feeling low, flagging, fragmenting, going to pieces,
grief, hankering, heartfelt grief, heartgrief, heartless, homesick,
homesickness, honing, hypochondriac, hypochondriacal,
in low spirits, in the depths, in the doldrums, in the dumps,
lamentation, languishing, languishment, longing, low, low-spirited,
mal du pays, maladie du pays, marcescent, misery, nostalgia,
nostalgic, nostomania, pessimistic, prostration, regressive,
retrograde, retrogressive, shriveling, sinking, sliding, slipping,
slumping, sorrow, sorrowing, spiritless, subdued, subsiding,
suicidal, tabetic, waning, wasting, weary of life, wilting,
wishful, wistful, withering, woe, woebegone, world-weary,
worsening, yearnful, yearning, yen
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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