repine
Plural: repines
Verb
Verb Forms: repined, repining, repines
- To feel or express discontent or fretfulness.
- express discontent
- To complain; to regret; to fret.
- To long for (something) discontentedly.
Noun
- A repining.
Examples
- There’s no time to repine over a bad draw; you must play what you have.
Origin / Etymology
Believed to have been formed (with uncertainty, due to the unusual formation) as re- + pine, with the verb giving rise to the noun (first attested in 1529 and 1593 respectively); compare the Middle English verb repinen (“(uncertain) to cause trouble to someone, grieve”) (from pīnen (“to cause pain, grieve, hurt, trouble; to starve, pine; to torment, torture”), from Old English pīnian), which may be related.
Scrabble Score: 8
repine: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordrepine: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
repine: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary