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pining
/ˈpaɪnɪŋ/
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What does pining mean?
verb
- present participle and gerund of pine
noun
- The act of one who pines.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈpaɪnɪŋ/
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“And you do not lie dead in some ditch under some stream? And you are not a pining outcast amongst strangers?”
They wept constantly, and as if pining away with some unsatisfied desire, spent their days in the greatest misery and anxiety.
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The child was a sickly-looking, pining sort of creature, rocking about in evident pain, and moaning and fretting just as sick children do.
I thought of the little baby, who, Mrs. Creakle said, had been pining away for some time, and who, they believed, would die too.
The second patient was a member of a regiment of colored infantry; he died after repeatedly pining for his old home.