verb
- to feel or express discontent or dejection; to complain or fret
Usage: archaic or literary
Examples
- She repined over her lost opportunities.
- He repined at his fate but could do nothing to change it.
- The old man repined about the changes in his neighborhood.
- Rather than repine about the weather, they decided to make the best of it.
- She repined in silence, unwilling to burden others with her troubles.
- The poet repined over the brevity of life in his verses.