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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Heimweh, aching, agony, anguish, bowed-down, care, carking care, cast down, coming apart, cracking, crumbling, dashed, decadent, declining, degenerate, dejected, depressed, desiderium, despairing, despondent, desponding, deteriorating, discouraged, disheartened, disintegrating, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, draining, drooping, droopy, dwindling, ebbing, effete, fading, failing, falling, feeling low, flagging, fragmenting, going to pieces, grief, hankering, heartfelt grief, heartgrief, heartless, homesick, homesickness, honing, hypochondriac, hypochondriacal, in low spirits, in the depths, in the doldrums, in the dumps, lamentation, languishing, languishment, longing, low, low-spirited, mal du pays, maladie du pays, marcescent, misery, nostalgia, nostalgic, nostomania, pessimistic, prostration, regressive, retrograde, retrogressive, shriveling, sinking, sliding, slipping, slumping, sorrow, sorrowing, spiritless, subdued, subsiding, suicidal, tabetic, waning, wasting, weary of life, wilting, wishful, wistful, withering, woe, woebegone, world-weary, worsening, yearnful, yearning, yen
Dictionary Results for pining:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
pining
    n 1: a feeling of deep longing
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Pine \Pine\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pined; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Pining.] [AS. p[imac]nan to torment, fr. p[imac]n torment.
   See 1st Pine, Pain, n. & v.]
   1. To inflict pain upon; to torment; to torture; to afflict.
      [Obs.] --Chaucer. Shak.
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            That people that pyned him to death.  --Piers
                                                  Plowman.
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            One is pined in prison, another tortured on the
            rack.                                 --Bp. Hall.
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   2. To grieve or mourn for. [R.] --Milton.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Pining \Pin"ing\, a.
   1. Languishing; drooping; wasting away, as with longing.
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   2. Wasting; consuming. "The pining malady of France." --Shak.
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