forpine

To pine away.

Verb

  1. To pine away.
    • But, through long anguish and selfe-murd'ring He was so wasted and forpined quight - 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  2. 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:

Origin

From Middle English forpinen, equivalent to for- + pine. Cognate with Middle Low German vorpinen (“to forpine”).

Forms

forpines forpining forpined