pine away

Verb

Meaning

lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

waste languish pine sulk dream despair wasted bleed fret brood lament atrophy mourn grieve ache
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Antonyms

miss slight reject forget discount disdain
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Hypernyms

weaken

Examples

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. Vladimir Nabokov

After her husband died, she just pined away Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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