Pine away meaning

Verb: pine away

Pronunciation: (pIn u’wey)

Pine away meaning: Lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief.

Synonyms: languish

Quotations: Chuck Taylor – It’s hard for me to imagine that Rod Stewart has been pining away for an appearance on ‘American Idol’ so he can visit a group of kids with dreams. You cannot deny the impact American Idol has had on artist’s record sales.

Ben Gibbard – We all pine for a time in life when things were simpler. Even when they weren’t necessarily simpler, hindsight makes them look a lot simpler. The reality of it was that it wasn’t.

Timothy Noah – To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass illiteracy.

Vladimir Nabokov – I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.

Sample sentences:

1. And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies lands.
2. After her husband died, she just pined away.
3. If our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live?
4. If we take one away, the other pines.
5. They shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another.