WordNet
Usage examples of "pine away".
On the average ranch foundlings and weaklings get no attention whatever, but are left in their misery to pine away and perish from neglect.
Don't you pine away for her, Joe, not after she gives you a fake number.
Dayala couldn't afford to pine away after him, and the sooner he got on with his work, the sooner he could sort out the mess and head back to Naclos.
And I'm trying to decide whether I'll pine away and die, or go on and get my B.
In severe cases they pine away to their deaths, having no interest in meat or drink and no desire for life in Erith.
Was I pretending through all those months watching her pine away over John Fraser that it wasn't real?
In the way of nature, he was redundant now, as he would pine away over the winter and die in the spring.