Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To pine; decline, especially by sickness; fade or waste: usually with away.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb Obs. or Prov. Eng. To waste away; to pine; to languish.
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- verb archaic except in Scotland and dialects To
wither ,decline ,pine away.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Glossary: hail = whole fient = hardly straucht = straight dwine = dwindle forfochten = worn out abrede = spread tae gar = to make warldis = all the world remeid = relief mirk = darkness thir = these dule = misery leal = loyal soothfu = truthful
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Audoin the Lombard (O.E. E.dwine), father of Alboin, 67
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-- Weel, whether it was 'at their herts was ower muckle wrappit up i' this ae human cratur for the growth o 'their sowls, I dinna ken -- there bude to be some rizzon for't -- this last ane o' a 'begud in his turn to dwine an' dwin'le like the lave; an 'whaurever thae twa puir fowk turnt themsel's i' their pangs, there stude deith, glowerin 'at them oot o' his toom e'en.
Warlock o' Glenwarlock George MacDonald 1864
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These covenants are turned skeletons, fearsome and affrighting, and former respect to them is like gradually to dwine away under a consumption.
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"I vill not dwine aroundt no heart vat shmells zo shtrong mit shmoke!
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, August 13, 1887 Various 1876
mollusque commented on the word dwine
To waste or pine away; languish, fade, wither.
December 3, 2007
annegm commented on the word dwine
related to the verb "to dwindle" perhaps?
May 28, 2010
madmouth commented on the word dwine
has occasioned dwive, poss. d'wive, a hypothetical abbreviation of a more gender-specific synonym for 'divorce' :D
November 17, 2011