MEANING
To feel or complain of dissatisfaction, especially about one's circumstances.
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Words that belong together
- repine at fate
- repine over a loss
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He repined at the exile yet never asked to return.
She would not repine over the years the sea had taken.
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Word forms
- Base
- repine
- Past tense
- repined
- Past participle
- repined
- Present participle
- repining
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- repine
- Present continuous
- am/is/are repining
- Present perfect
- have/has repined
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been repining
- Past
- repined
- Past continuous
- was/were repining
- Past perfect
- had repined
- Past perfect continuous
- had been repining
- Future
- will repine
- Future continuous
- will be repining
- Future perfect
- will have repined
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been repining
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Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: repine; repines; repined; repined; repining Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: repines.
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