verb
- to feel or express discontent or dejection; to complain or fret
Usage: formal; literary
Examples
- She refused to repine over her lost opportunities.
- The old man would repine about his failing health.
- Rather than repine at fate, he chose to move forward.
- They repined at the harsh conditions of their exile.
- Don’t repine over what cannot be changed.
- He spent his days repining for his homeland.