Usually means: Longing deeply for someone absent.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. pining: Merriam-Webster
  2. pining: Collins English Dictionary
  3. pining: Vocabulary.com
  4. Pining, pining: Wordnik
  5. pining: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. pining: Wiktionary
  7. Pining, pining: Dictionary.com
  8. pining: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Pining: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. pining: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. pining: Rhymezone
  12. Pining: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. pining: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. pining: FreeDictionary.org
  15. pining: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. Pining: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pining: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pining: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pining: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pining: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pining: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See pine as well.)

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noun:  The act of one who pines.

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