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PINE AWAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pine away mean? 

PINE AWAY (verb)
  The verb PINE AWAY has 1 sense:

1. lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through griefplay

  Familiarity information: PINE AWAY used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PINE AWAY (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

languish; pine away; waste

Context example:

After her husband died, she just pined away

Hypernyms (to "pine away" is one way to...):

weaken (become weaker)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s


 Context examples 


That he had once, by way of experiment, privately removed a heap of these stones from the place where one of his Yahoos had buried it; whereupon the sordid animal, missing his treasure, by his loud lamenting brought the whole herd to the place, there miserably howled, then fell to biting and tearing the rest, began to pine away, would neither eat, nor sleep, nor work, till he ordered a servant privately to convey the stones into the same hole, and hide them as before; which, when his Yahoo had found, he presently recovered his spirits and good humour, but took good care to remove them to a better hiding place, and has ever since been a very serviceable brute.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)



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