repine
verb (used without object)
to be fretfully discontented; fret; complain.
repines
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present tense formof repine (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Tasso: The golden age, ah! whither is it flown, For which in secret every heart repines?
From Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance) by Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams) Champney
He never halts, never repines, never is puzzled, like other men; that tranquillity, full of life, that ceaseless but graceful motion, "without haste, without rest," for which we all are striving, he has attained.
From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Margaret Fuller
At this who ever envies or repines I leave him to his lot, and like my own.
From The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton
At first the settler repines, but his difficulties are inevitable: he is silent, because his trials have long lost the interest of novelty, and all around him are fellow-sufferers.
From The History of Tasmania , Volume II by John West
He neglects himself because he was born in his own time and so far off antiquity, which he so much admires, and repines, like a younger brother, because he came so late into the world.
From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various
