Crossword-Solution: PINING
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pining | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Pine |
| Pining | a. | Languishing; drooping; wasting away, as with longing. |
| Pining | a. | Wasting; consuming. |
We have 31 clues for the answer “PINING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Like a lonesome swain | 1 answer |
| Heartsick (for) | 1 answer |
| Feeling a loss | 1 answer |
| Echo's activity | 1 answer |
| Aching (for) | 1 answer |
| "He's probably ___ for the fjords" (excuse for a dead parrot in a famous "Monty Python" sketch) | 1 answer |
| Yearning (for) | 3 answers |
| BE HEARTSICK ABOUT | 10 answers |
| A FEELING OF DEEP LONGING | 11 answers |
| disconsolation | 39 answers |
| dolour | 39 answers |
| teardrops | 41 answers |
| Bereavement | 41 answers |
| Wretchedness | 42 answers |
| wailing | 42 answers |
| Sobbing | 50 answers |
| deploring | 50 answers |
| despondency | 50 answers |
| Weeping | 52 answers |
| sorrowing | 52 answers |
| languishing | 53 answers |
| Lamenting | 55 answers |
| Dejection | 58 answers |
| Lamenta-tion | 63 answers |
| mistiness | 65 answers |
| Crying | 65 answers |
| grieving | 67 answers |
| Blues | 68 answers |
| Woe | 69 answers |
| Yearning | 75 answers |
| Suffering | 81 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AEETR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PINING (5)
Perchance, amid their proper element of smoke, which eddied forth from the ill-constructed chimney, the ghosts of departed cook-maids looked wonderingly on, or peeped down the great breadth of the flue, despising the simplicity of the projected meal, yet ineffectually pining to thrust their shadowy hands into each inchoate dish.
Look at that unhappy young man.” “Yes,” said Rowland, “he seems unhappy.” “He is just come of age, he bears one of the greatest names in Italy and owns one of the greatest properties, and he is pining away with love for my daughter.” “So the Cavaliere tells me.” “The Cavaliere should n’t gossip,” said Mrs.
The cause was good; the men engaged in it were good; the means to attain its triumph, good; Heaven’s blessing must attend all, and freedom must soon be given to the pining millions under a ruthless bondage.
Whenever, in a moment of inattention, he discovered himself pining to enjoy a witty remark or some unguarded laughter, he quoted, hoping that it was true, the old proverb that "we grow most not when something is given but when something is taken away." All in all, it was a reasonable life with much to be thankful for.
You mustn't think everybody's got such a thundering great appetite as you, Nelson.” “I guess you've got enough to keep you from pining away,” said Nelson, good-naturedly, “you're twice as fat as I am.” “That's because I work harder,” said John, rather illogically.
Quotes with PINING (3)
I’m not the kind of man to bottle up my feelings, Kells. I don’t sit up in my room pining away, writing love poems. I’m not a dreamer. I’m a fighter. I’m a man of action, and it will take all of my self-control not to fight for this. When something needs to be done, I do it. When I feel something, I act on it. I don’t see any reason why Ren deserves to get the girl of his dreams and I don’t. It doesn’t seem fair that this happens to me twice.
He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented.
Time plays like an accordion in the way it can stretch out and compress itself in a thousand melodic ways. Months on end may pass blindingly in a quick series of chords, open-shut, together-apart; and then a single melancholy week may seem like a year's pining, one long unfolding note.
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Appears in: NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1973–2024).