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pine for
pine for somebody/something phrasal verb (see also pine)
1. if you pine for a place or for something, you miss it a lot and wish you could be there or have it again:
    After two months in France I was pining for home.
2. if you pine for someone, you feel very unhappy because they are not with you:
    Karen had been pining for her friends back home in Colorado.