0 present participle of pine
1 to become increasingly thin and weak because of unhappiness, especially after the death of a loved person:
This is followed by the so-called 'pangs' of grief, intense episodes of pining for the lost person accompanied by tearfulness, anxiety and/or anger.
In these fights everyone is pining for a new trial.
The people are pining for news, and they are being completely bottled up and not getting the truth.
They are pining to be told something and have the curtain lifted up just a little.
We are pushing them out of the modern igloo and letting them live unloved and lonely, and often pining away.
It is no good pining for those days, because the fact is that businesses are going to grow larger.
We must recognise that modern training techniques can substantially reduce training time; that is one reason why it is no use pining after the old apprenticeship scheme.
They are, in general, pining for planning.
