repine
verb (used without object)
to be fretfully discontented; fret; complain.
will repine
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future tenseof repine.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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Let those who will, repine at fate, And droop their heads in sorrow, I'll laugh when cares upon me wait, I know they'll leave to-morrow.
From Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures by George W. Bain
No one will repine if I take cold or fever.
From Barnaby Rudge: a tale of the Riots of 'eighty by Charles Dickens
Once removed—once in those forest regions, it can not be that she will repine for anything.
From Confession, or, the Blind Heart; a Domestic Story by William Gilmore Simms
He who sees - as I have seen - a sight like that, will repine no more that the primæval forest is cut down, the fair mere drained.
From Prose Idylls, New and Old by Charles Kingsley
When he chooses the labours which are proper, and makes them labour on them, who will repine?
From The Analects of Confucius (from the Chinese Classics) by James Legge
