Usually means: Feeling discontent; fretting about something.
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  1. repining: Merriam-Webster
  2. repining: Collins English Dictionary
  3. repining: Vocabulary.com
  4. repining: Wordnik
  5. repining: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. repining: Wiktionary
  7. repining: Dictionary.com
  8. repining: Rhymezone
  9. repining: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. repining: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. repining: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  The act of fretting or feeling discontent or of murmuring.

Similar:
complaintive, complaining, fret, bemoaning, momism, pesterment, reproach, improperation, resentment, grievance, more...

Adjectives:
vain, bitter, useless, much, secret, little, fruitless, sad, selfish, weak, inward



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Similar:
complaintive, complaining, fret, bemoaning, momism, pesterment, reproach, improperation, resentment, grievance, more...

Adjectives:
vain, bitter, useless, much, secret, little, fruitless, sad, selfish, weak, inward



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