0 past simple and past participle of pine
1 to become increasingly thin and weak because of unhappiness, especially after the death of a loved person:
The cat pined and began wilting away, and the fanner had a very good excuse for getting rid of it.
When he had to retire he pined so much for his lost work that after some time he could stand it no longer.
But the horse, willing though it was, pined away and died.
They were distressed to find that the boy, removed from familiar surroundings, had pined, had refused to eat and had lost weight.
She pined for her warm sea-home in the southwest, and sent a message to her people.
Her condition continued for two or three years, until she pined away to skin and bones and ended her sorrowful life.
Overcome by melancholy in consequence of that last disaster, he pined away and died in 1559.
For over a hundred years, the world has pined for a return to the lap of myth.
