Synonyms of the word pine


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pine

  • n. (countable, uncountable) Any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus.
  • n. (countable) Any tree (usually coniferous) which resembles a member of this genus in some respect.
  • n. (uncountable) The wood of this tree.
  • n. (archaic except South Africa) A pineapple.
  • n. (archaic) A painful longing.
  • v. To feel irritated; to reflect on a problem. ; to think something over.
  • v. To languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress; to droop.
  • v. (intransitive) To long, to yearn so much that it causes suffering.
  • v. (transitive) To grieve or mourn for.
  • v. (transitive) To inflict pain upon; to torment; to torture; to afflict.

ache

  • v. (intransitive) To suffer pain; to be the source of, or be in, pain, especially continued dull pain; to…
  • v. (transitive, literary, rare) To cause someone or something to suffer pain.
  • n. Continued dull pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain.
  • n. (obsolete) Parsley.
  • n. Rare spelling of aitch.

conifer

  • n. (botany) A plant belonging to the conifers; a cone-bearing seed plant with vascular tissue, usually a…

hanker

  • v. To crave, want or desire.

languish

  • v. (intransitive) To lose strength and become weak; to be in a state of weakness or sickness.
  • v. (intransitive) To pine away in longing for something; to have low spirits, especially from lovesickness.
  • v. (intransitive) To live in miserable or disheartening conditions.
  • v. (intransitive) To be neglected; to make little progress, be unsuccessful.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To make weak; to weaken, devastate.
  • v. (intransitive, now rare) To affect a languid air, especially disingenuously.

long

  • adj. Having much distance from one terminating point on an object or an area to another terminating point (usually…
  • adj. Having great duration.
  • adj. Seemingly lasting a lot of time, because it is boring or tedious or tiring.
  • adj. (Britain, dialect) Not short; tall.
  • adj. (finance) Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities or other financial instruments with the aim…
  • adj. (cricket) Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent…
  • adj. (tennis, of a ball or a shot) That land beyond the baseline (and therefore is out).
  • adj. Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.
  • adv. Over a great distance in space.
  • adv. For a particular duration.
  • adv. For a long duration.
  • n. (linguistics) A long vowel.
  • n. (programming) A long integer variable, twice the size of an int, two or four times the size of a short,…
  • n. (finance) An entity with a long position in an asset.
  • n. (music) A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.
  • v. (transitive, finance) To take a long position in.
  • v. (intransitive) To await, aspire, desire greatly (something to occur or to be true).
  • adj. (archaic) On account of, because of.
  • v. (archaic) To be appropriate to, to pertain or belong to.
  • n. longitude.

wood

  • n. (uncountable) The substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree. Used as a…
  • n. (countable) The wood of a particular species of tree.
  • n. (countable) A forested or wooded area.
  • n. Firewood.
  • n. (countable, golf) A type of golf club, the head of which was traditionally made of wood.
  • n. (music) A woodwind instrument.
  • n. (uncountable, slang) An erection of the penis.
  • n. (chess, uncountable, slang) Chess pieces.
  • v. (transitive) To cover or plant with trees.
  • v. (transitive) To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for.
  • v. To take or get a supply of wood.
  • adj. (obsolete) Mad, insane, crazed.
  • n. (US, sometimes offensive, chiefly prison slang, of a person) A peckerwood.

yearn

  • v. (intransitive, construed with for) To long, have a strong desire (for something).
  • v. (intransitive, construed with for) To long for something in the past with melancholy, nostalgically.
  • v. (intransitive) To be pained or distressed; to grieve; to mourn.
  • v. (transitive) To pain; to grieve; to vex.
  • v. (Scotland) To curdle, as milk.
  • n. (nonstandard) yen; yearning.

yen

  • n. The unit of Japanese currency (symbol: ¥) since 1871, divided into 100 sen.
  • n. A coin or note worth one yen.
  • n. A strong desire, urge, or yearning.
  • v. (transitive) To have a strong desire for.
  • n. Opium.

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