forpine
English
Etymology
From Middle English forpinen, equivalent to for- + pine. Cognate with Middle Low German vorpinen (“to forpine”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fə(ɹ)ˈpaɪn/
Verb
forpine (third-person singular simple present forpines, present participle forpining, simple past and past participle forpined)
- (intransitive, obsolete) To pine away.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- But, through long anguish and selfe-murd'ring
He was so wasted and forpined quight
- (transitive, archaic) To waste away through suffering or through torment.
- 1924, G. M. Cookson, Prometheus Bound:
- […] While to my sight thy giant stature rears
Its bulk forpined upon these savage rocks
In shameful bonds the linked adamant locks.
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