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pine away

pine away verb: to mourn or grieve so intensely as to slowly decline in health, vitality or energy.

Verb

pine away (third-person singular simple present pines away, present participle pining away, simple past and past participle pined away)

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To mourn or grieve so intensely as to slowly decline in health, vitality or energy.

pine away meaning in Tamil and Kannada

pine away in Tamil

சாம்பு, நலிதல், நலி

pine away in Kannada

to pine away
ಬಾಡು bāḍu

Forms of pine away

third-person singular presentpines away
present participlepining away
past participlepined away
pastpined away

Questions about pine away

What does pine away mean?
Pine away means to mourn or grieve so intensely as to slowly decline in health, vitality or energy.
What is pine away in Tamil?
Pine away in Tamil is சாம்பு, நலிதல், நலி. See Pine away meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is pine away?
Pine away is a verb.
What is the past tense of pine away?
The past tense of pine away is pined away.

Words near pine away in the dictionary

  1. pindrop
  2. Pindus
  3. pine
  4. pine aphid
  5. pine aphids
  6. pine away
  7. Pine Bluff
  8. pine box
  9. pine boxes
  10. Pine Brook
  11. pine bunting

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pine away (page history and authors); pine away (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ಬಾಡು (Kannada) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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