0 present participle of pine --
1 to become increasingly thin and weak because of unhappiness, especially after the death of a loved person: --
Phaedra has been left alone to care for the palace, and she finds herself pining for the forests and the hunt.
Stories are recounted of men who married bunian women but, pining for their families they left behind, decided to leave the bunian community.
She exhumes the body and buries the head in a pot of basil which she tends obsessively, while pining away.
The fianc is left pining for the huntsman, eventually forgetting about the boa but never of him.
In this case she would be lamenting and pining after her son, hoping that he was okay, and not her lover.
Land racketeers are pining for the good old days.
Are they pining for democratic instituions there?
They are, in general, pining for planning.
