repine

intr.v., -pined, -pin·ing, -pines.

1. To be discontented or low in spirits; complain or fret.
2. To yearn after something: Immigrants who repined for their homeland.

[Middle English repinen, to be aggrieved : re-, re- + pinen, to yearn; see pine².]

repiner re·pin'er n.

(ri-PYN)

verb intr.
1. To feel discontent; to fret.
2. To yearn for something.

Etymology
From re- + pine, from Middle English, from Old English pinian (to suffer). Ultimately from Indo-European root k(w)ei- that's also the source of words such as pain, penal, punish, impunity, and subpoena

Usage
"The rest of her life was to be spent in a wheelchair. She did not repine." — Elisabeth Sheppard-Jones; The Times (London, UK); Mar 4, 2004.

"But Oswald was a patient man and he never murmured or repined." — John Gould; With Hannah, Oswald Didn't Need a Telephone; Christian Science Monitor (Boston, Massachusetts); Aug 28, 1998.

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IN BRIEF: To indulge in fretfulness and faultfinding.

Shall any of us repine that it is our lot to live in perilous and sacrificial days? — Thomas W. Lamont

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The verb has one meaning:

Meaning #1: express discontent

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Dansk (Danish)
v. intr. - græmmes, begræde, være utilfreds med

Nederlands (Dutch)
mopperen, verlangen naar, zich zorgen maken

Français (French)
v. intr. - se plaindre (littér)

Deutsch (German)
v. - hadern

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - γογγύζω, δυσανασχετώ

Italiano (Italian)
dolersi, affliggersi, lagnarsi, lamentarsi

Português (Portuguese)
v. - queixar-se

Русский (Russian)
томиться, изнывать

Español (Spanish)
v. intr. - afligirse, quejarse

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - klaga, gräma sig

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
不满, 埋怨, 发牢骚, 烦恼

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
v. intr. - 不滿, 埋怨, 發牢騷, 煩惱

한국어 (Korean)
v. intr. - 불평하다, 투덜거리다, 푸념하다

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - 不平を言う

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) يشكو, يتذمر‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. intr. - ‮התלונן, רטן, רגן‬

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