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Meanings of pine away in anglès

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llanguir

Lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief.

        llanguir
        Synonyms
        Examples for "waste"
        Examples for "waste"
        1
        In Europe alone we waste 90 million tonnes of food a year.
        The Irish Times
        2
        More funding is being proposed to tackle New Zealand's growing waste problem.
        Radio NZ
        3
        Examples of action that can be taken include: -Household food waste.
        The Guardian
        4
        Earlier this year China decided to stop taking any more foreign waste.
        Radio NZ
        5
        The economic crisis is rooted in decades of state corruption and waste.
        Reuters
        1
        This team already languish 11 points behind City in the Premier League.
        The Guardian
        2
        The woman made her objections clear as the bird continued to languish.
        Radio NZ
        3
        They found one in the little room where the architects' drawings languish.
        The Irrational Knot / Being the Second Novel of His Nonage
        4
        She said she was not going to repine and languish in sorrow.
        A Century Too Soon: The Age of Tyranny
        5
        Until this idol is cast out the church will and must languish.
        Usury / A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View
        Usage of pine away in anglès
        1
        As to my welfare, do not pine away with worrying about that.
        Patsy
        2
        But unless I get you pretty soon, I'll pine away with grief.
        Marjorie's Vacation
        3
        Would you let the companion of your daughter pine away with despair?
        Mercadet: A Comedy in Three Acts
        4
        You'd pine away if you didn't have some mystery to mill over.
        Skyrider
        5
        She could not bear to swim in it, and began to pine away.
        Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers / Artemus Ward, George Macdo...
        6
        The little fellow grew very thin, and began to pine away.
        Thirty Indian Legends
        7
        My zeal hath made me pine away: because my enemies forgot thy words.
        The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2
        8
        You would not leave him to pine away in solitary grandeur?
        The Fair Maid of Perth; Or, St. Valentine's Day
        9
        A goldfinch would pine away on the nourishment you have taken!
        Fate Knocks at the Door: A Novel
        10
        She had flowered in the sunlight; she must not pine away in the shade.
        The House Behind the Cedars
        11
        I would rather die, while making my escape, than pine away in such wretchedness.
        Joshua — Volume 3
        12
        As for Daae, he began to pine away with homesickness.
        The Phantom of the Opera
        13
        But don't be uneasy; I'm not going to pine away.
        The Darling and Other Stories
        14
        Can a mother sit still and see her child pine away before her eyes?
        Poor Relations
        15
        She could not bear to swim in it any more, and began to pine away.
        The Light Princess
        16
        People pine away lonely under the tyranny of Snobs.
        The Book of Snobs
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        Translations for pine away
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        llanguir
        Pine away through the time
        Pine away across language varieties
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