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Webster 1913 Edition


Forpine

For-pine′

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Verb.
T.
To waste away completely by suffering or torment.
[Archaic]
“Pale as a forpined ghost.”
Chaucer.

Webster 1828 Edition


Forpine

FORPI'NE

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Verb.
I.
To pine or waste away. Obs.

Definition 2024


forpine

forpine

English

Verb

forpine (third-person singular simple present forpines, present participle forpining, simple past and past participle forpined)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To pine away.
  2. (transitive, archaic) To waste away through suffering or through torment.
    • 14th Century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Complaynt of Phylomene
      But I which spend, the darke and dreadful night, / In watch and ward, when those birds take their rest, / Forpine my selfe, that Louers might delight, / To heare the notes, which breake out of my breste.
    • 1924, G. M. Cookson, Prometheus Bound
      ...While to my sight thy giant stature rears / Its bulk forpined upon these savage rocks / In shameful bonds the linked adamant locks.