Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To waste away by suffering or torment.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb Archaic To waste away completely by suffering or torment.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive, obsolete To
pine away. - verb intransitive, archaic To waste away through suffering or through torment.
Etymologies
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From Middle English forpinen, equivalent to for- + pine. Cognate with Middle Low German vorpinen ("to forpine").
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