pining away

  • 1Pining — Pin ing, a. 1. Languishing; drooping; wasting away, as with longing. [1913 Webster] 2. Wasting; consuming. The pining malady of France. Shak. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 2pine away — phrasal verb [intransitive] Word forms pine away : present tense I/you/we/they pine away he/she/it pines away present participle pining away past tense pined away past participle pined away same as pine II The dog pined away when its owner died.… …

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  • 3pine away — verb lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief After her husband died, she just pined away • Syn: ↑waste, ↑languish • Derivationally related forms: ↑languisher (for: ↑languish), ↑was …

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  • 4Miles Away (Madonna song) — Miles Away Single by Madonna from the album Hard Candy Released …

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  • 5pine — verb 1) I am pining away from love Syn: languish, decline, weaken, waste away, wilt, wither, fade, sicken, droop; brood, mope, moon 2) he was pining for his son Syn …

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  • 6Vanity Fair — Infobox Book name = Vanity Fair title orig = translator = image caption = Title page to Vanity Fair , drawn by Thackeray, who furnished the illustrations for many of his earlier editions author = William Makepeace Thackeray illustrator = William… …

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  • 7Romance of the West Chamber — (zh stp|s=西厢记|t=西廂記|p=xīxiāngjì; Story of the Western Wing ) is one of the most famous Chinese dramatic works. It was written by the Yuan Dynasty playwright Wang Shifu 王实甫(ca 1260 1336), and set during the Tang Dynasty. It is a story of young… …

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  • 8pine — pine1 [ paın ] noun * 1. ) pine or pine tree count a tall tree with thin sharp leaves called needles that do not fall off in winter, and hard brown fruits called cones 2. ) uncount the wood of a pine tree: a table made of solid pine pine… …

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  • 9Echo (mythology) — In Greek mythology, Echo (Greek: Ἠχώ) was an Oread (a mountain nymph) who loved her own voice. Zeus loved consorting with beautiful nymphs and visited them on Earth often. Eventually, Zeus s wife, Hera, became suspicious, and came from Mt.… …

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  • 10History of As the World Turns (1976–1980) — This article is about the history of As the World Turns (ATWT), the second longest running American television soap opera. 1980 1989 Like many daytime dramas of the period, the show entered into a mixed experiment with heavily youth oriented… …

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