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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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
When I laugh, something within me suffers and repines; it is by no means rare for me to pass suddenly and without transition from the wildest gayety to the profoundest sadness and melancholy.
From The Cross of Berny by Florence Fendall
One complains of a real or assumed grievance; he may murmur through mere peevishness or ill temper; he repines, with vain distress, at the irrevocable or the inevitable.
From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald
A quiet place,—"slow" is the accurate modern epithet for it—"awfully slow;" but to Dorothy a quite suitable home, at which she never repines.
From The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54 by Edward Abbott Parry
Is there a man who boasts a British heart, that repines at the success and prosperity of his country?
From The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves by T. (Tobias) Smollett
