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forpining

forpining is the present participle and gerund of forpine.

Meaning of forpine

Verb

forpine (third-person singular simple present forpines, present participle forpining, simple past and past participle forpined)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To pine away.
    • But, through long anguish and selfe-murd'ring
      He was so wasted and forpined quight1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. (archaic, transitive) To waste away through suffering or through torment.
    • […] While to my sight thy giant stature rears
      Its bulk forpined upon these savage rocks
      In shameful bonds the linked adamant locks.1924, G. M. Cookson, Prometheus Bound

Questions about forpining

What is forpining the present participle and gerund of?
Forpining is the present participle and gerund of forpine.

Words near forpining in the dictionary

  1. forpet
  2. forpets
  3. forpine
  4. forpined
  5. forpines
  6. forpining
  7. forpit
  8. forpits
  9. forprofit
  10. forprofits
  11. Forquer

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