Usually means: Feel discontent or fretful longing.
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  1. repine: Merriam-Webster
  2. repine: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. repine: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. repine: Collins English Dictionary
  5. repine: Vocabulary.com
  6. Repine, repine: Wordnik
  7. repine: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. repine: Wiktionary
  9. repine: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. repine: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. repine: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Repine, repine: Dictionary.com
  13. repine: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Repine: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. repine: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. repine: Rhymezone
  17. Repine: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. repine: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. repine: FreeDictionary.org
  20. repine: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. repine: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. repine: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. repine: Wordcraft Dictionary

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  1. repine: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (repine)

▸ verb:  (intransitive, now literary) To complain; to regret; to fret.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, with for, now literary) To long for (something) discontentedly.
▸ noun:  (obsolete, now rare) A repining.

Similar:
reprove, reproach, deprecate, repent, berisp, regret, deplore, reprehend, fear, forthink, more...

Opposite:
rejoice, delight, be content, be satisfied

Adjectives:
humble, more, less, mournest, weary, sore, few, thoughtful, long, scarce, harmless


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Similar:
reprove, reproach, deprecate, repent, berisp, regret, deplore, reprehend, fear, forthink, more...

Opposite:
rejoice, delight, be content, be satisfied

Adjectives:
humble, more, less, mournest, weary, sore, few, thoughtful, long, scarce, harmless



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