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forpine en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /fəɹˈpaɪn/ (General-American)
• /fəˈpaɪn/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From Middle English forpinen, equivalent to for- + pine. Cognate with Middle Low German vorpinen (“to forpine”).

Meanings

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To pine away.
   • But, through long anguish and selfe-murd'ring He was so wasted and forpined quight 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
2. (archaic, transitive) To waste away through suffering or through torment.
   • […] While to my sight thy giant stature rears Its bulk forpined upon these savage rocks In shameful bonds the linked adamant locks. 1924, G. M. Cookson, Prometheus Bound:

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