pining [医] 牛羊贫血病
pining[ noun ]
a feeling of deep longing
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Pining \Pin"ing\, a.
1. Languishing; drooping; wasting away, as with longing.
2. Wasting; consuming. ``The pining malady of France.''
--Shak.
Pine \Pine\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pined}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Pining}.] [AS. p[=i]nan to torment, fr. p[=i]n torment. See
1st {Pine}, {Pain}, n. & v.]
1. To inflict pain upon; to torment; to torture; to afflict.
[Obs.] --Chaucer. Shak.
That people that pyned him to death. --Piers
Plowman.
One is pined in prison, another tortured on the
rack. --Bp. Hall.
2. To grieve or mourn for. [R.] --Milton.
- He has been governor ever since, pining to be president all the time.
- Enter his squire and the Saracen princess Erminia, his fair captive who loves him but has not a chance because he is pining after her best friend, Clorinda.
- "For years, we've been pining for a democratically elected leader there, and in Yeltsin we've come closer than ever to having that kind of a Russian politician.
- The cartoonists are pining for such easy-to-caricature noncontenders as Paul Simon and Mario Cuomo.