Repine: Definition and part of speech

Repine

  1. n. Vexation; mortification.
  2. v. i. To fail; to wane.
  3. v. i. To continue pining; to feel inward discontent which preys on the spirits; to indulge in envy or complaint; to murmur.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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