Definizione monolingua

repine

repine (third-person singular simple present repines, present participle repining, simple past and past participle repined)

1. (intransitive, now literary) To regret; to complain. [15?? C.–present]
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.3.6:

     But many times we complain, repine, and mutter without a cause, we give way to passions we may resist and will not.

   • 1958, John W. Peterson, Night of Miracles:

     no more need men on earth repine

   • 1988, Anthony Burgess, Any Old Iron:

     Beatrix invited me no more to tea but I did not greatly repine.

Definizione dizionario repine

dolersi

lagnarsi

lamentarsi

Altri significati:

(intransitive, now literary) To regret; to complain. [15th C.–present]