pine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /paɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: pines
form: pining
form: pined
form: pined
form: pyne
Etymology: From Middle English pynen, from Old English pīnian (“to torment”), from Proto-West Germanic *pīnōn, from Proto-West Germanic *pīnā (“pain, torment, torture”), from the noun (see above). Cognate with German peinigen (“to torment, torture”), Icelandic pína (“to torment”).
Senses: examples: text: Why pine not I, and die in this distress?
ref: c. 1589–1590 (date written), Christopher Marlo[we], edited by Tho[mas] Heywood, The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Iew of Malta. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Nicholas Vavasour, […], published 1633, →OCLC, Act I:
text: [T]hou mayſt know / What miſerie th' inabſtinence of Eve / Shall bring on men. Immediately a place / Before his eyes appeard, ſad, noyſom, dark, / A Lazar-houſe it ſeemd, wherein were laid / Numbers all diſeas'd, […] / […] / Dæmoniac Phrenzie, moaping Melancholie / And Moon-ſtruck madneſs, pining Atrophie, / Maraſmus and wide-waſting Peſtilence.
ref: 1674, John Milton, “Book XI”, in Paradise Lost. […], 2nd edition, London: […] S[amuel] Simmons […], →OCLC, pages 299–300:
text: This night shall see the gaudy wreath decline, The roses wither and the lilies pine.
ref: 170?, Thomas Tickell, To a Lady; With a Present of Flowers:
text: Long lay the world in sin and error pining / Till He appear’d and the soul felt its worth
ref: 1855, John Sullivan Dwight (translator), “Oh Holy Night”, as printed in 1871, Adolphe-Charles Adam (music), “Cantique de Noël”, G. Schirmer (New York), originally by Placide Cappeau de Roquemaure, 1847
text: The way the story went was that the man's foot healed up all right but that he just pined away.
ref: 1994, Walter Dean Myers, The Glory Field, →ISBN, page 29:
text: Before I pine away (Pine away)
ref: 2001 May 15, Tool, “Reflection” (track 11), in Lateralus:
synonyms: languish
droop
glosses: To languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress.
examples: text: Laura was pining for Bill all the time he was gone.
text: Praline: "That parrot is definitely deceased. And when I bought it not half an hour ago you assured me that its lack of movement was due to it being tired and shagged out after a long squawk."
Shopkeeper: "It's probably pining for the fiords."
Praline: "Pining for the fiords, what kind of talk is that?"
ref: 1969 December 7, Monty Python, “Full Frontal Nudity, Dead Parrot sketch”, in Monty Python's Flying Circus, spoken by shopkeeper and Mr Praline (Michael Palin and John Cleese):
text: Ten years ago, liberals pined for a post-religious right, a different culture war. Be careful what you wish for.
ref: 2016 August 14, Ross Douthat, “A Playboy for President”, in The New York Times:
text: Of the group, Max (Room’s Jacob Tremblay) is the most nominally mature, at least biologically speaking; unlike his childhood companions, he’s entered the early throes of puberty, and spends a lot of his waking hours pining, rather chastely, for a classmate (Millie Davis).
ref: 2019 August 14, A. A. Dowd, “Good Boys Puts a Tween Spin on the R-rated Teen Comedy, to Mostly Funny Effect”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2021:
synonyms: long
yearn
glosses: To long, to yearn so much that it causes suffering.
synonyms: word: bewail
word: lament
word: begrieve
word: bemoan
word: bewail
word: beweep
word: condole
word: deplore
word: grieve
word: grieven
word: keen
word: lament
word: mean
word: mourn
word: pine
word: sigh
word: sorrow
word: wail
word: wayment
glosses: To grieve or mourn for.
examples: text: Which way, O Lord, which way can I look, and not see some sad examples of misery? […] [O]ne is pined in prison; another, tortured on the rack; a third, languisheth under the loss of a dear son, or wife, or husband.
ref: 1648, Joseph Hall, “The Breathings of the Devout Soul”, in Josiah Pratt, editor, The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall, D.D. […], volume VI (Devotional Works), London: […] C[harles] Whittingham, […]; for Williams and Smith, […], published 1808, →OCLC, page 325:
synonyms: word: afflict
word: torment
word: torture
word: ache
word: afflict
word: aggrieve
word: agonize
word: anguish
word: dere
word: excruciate
word: hurt
word: irritate
word: pang
word: pine
word: rack
word: throe
word: torment
word: torture
word: wring
glosses: To inflict pain upon; to torment.
Derived terms: forpine
pine away
piningly
pining stool
repine
unpining