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: --
Ann is said to have pined so desperately for her lover that she fell seriously ill.
She is said to have mixed his ashes in her daily drink, and to have gradually pined away during the two years that she survived him.
She also pined for her husband.
Odo had pined for her for years, while she was oblivious.
So both pined for each other.
Incredibly narcissistic, she is pined for by almost every male (teachers included) in the school, and delights in crushing their hopes.
For over a hundred years, the world has pined for a return to the lap of myth.
Overcome by melancholy in consequence of that last disaster, he pined away and died in 1559.
