to waste or pine away

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• pine 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 …   Useful english dictionary

• pine away — {v. phr.} To waste away with grief. * /After George was sent abroad, his wife pined away for him so much that she became ill./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

• pine away — {v. phr.} To waste away with grief. * /After George was sent abroad, his wife pined away for him so much that she became ill./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

• pine\ away — v. phr. To waste away with grief. After George was sent abroad, his wife pined away for him so much that she became ill …   Словарь американских идиом

• waste — wāst n 1) loss through breaking down of bodily tissue 2) wastes pl bodily waste materials: EXCREMENT waste vb, wast·ed; wast·ing vt to cause to shrink in physical bulk or strength …   Medical dictionary

• waste — Synonyms and related words: Arabia Deserta, Death Valley, Sahara, abate, ablate, ablation, absorption, acarpous, afterglow, afterimage, arid, assimilation, atrophy, attenuate, attrition, back, back of beyond, back country, backwood, backwoods,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• waste away — Synonyms and related words: Sanforize, abate, ablate, absorb, age, assimilate, atomize, atrophy, attenuate, bate, be consumed, be eaten away, be gone, bleed white, break up, burn up, cease, cease to be, cease to exist, cheat the undertaker, come… …   Moby Thesaurus

• pine — Synonyms and related words: ache, ache for, agonize, be dying for, be hurting for, bleed, break, brood, brood over, cave in, clamor for, collapse, come apart, come unstuck, conk out, crave, crumble, cry for, decline, desiccate, diminish,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• pine´like´ — pine1 «pyn», noun. 1. a) a tree bearing woody cones and clusters of evergreen leaves shaped like needles that grow out from temporary scalelike leaves. The various kinds of pine make up a genus of the pine family. Many kinds are valuable for… …   Useful english dictionary

• pine — I. /paɪn / (say puyn) noun 1. any member of the genus Pinus of the Northern Hemisphere, comprising evergreen coniferous trees varying greatly in size, with long needle shaped leaves, including many species of economic importance for their timber… …  

• Pine — Pine, v. i. 1. To suffer; to be afflicted. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] 2. To languish; to lose flesh or wear away, under any distress or anexiety of mind; to droop; often used with away. The roses wither and the lilies pine. Tickell. [1913 Webster] 3.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English