repine
verb (used without object)
to be fretfully discontented; fret; complain.
am repining
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present progressiveof repine (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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I am repining at my hard lot in being torn from you much oftener than I ought.
From Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Abigail Adams
