dwinev.

Brit.

/dwʌɪn/, U.S.

/dwaɪn/, Scottish English

/dwʌin/

Forms: Old English dwínan, Middle English–1700s dwyne, (Middle English duin(e, Middle English dwynne, 1500s dwinne, Scottish duyn(e), Middle English– dwine.

Etymology: Old English dwínan , dwán , dwinen , an original Germanic strong verb, represented by Old Norse dvína (Swedish dvina , Middle Dutch dwînen , early modern Dutch dwijnen (Kilian 1599), Dutch verdwijnen to vanish, disappear), Middle Low German and Low German dwînen . The strong inflections are not found after Old English period. Compare also fordwine v.

Now Scottish, dialect, and archaic.

1. intransitive. To waste or pine away; to decline in vigour, languish, fade, wither.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > wasting disease > have wasting disease [verb (intransitive)]

dwinec1000

shrinkc1000

swindOE

wastea1300

pinea1325

rot1340

tapishc1375

wastea1387

consume1495

decaya1538

winder1600

pule1607

moch1818

to run down1826

tabefy1891

c1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 82 Ðonne dwineþ seo wamb sona.

c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 506/35 Tabuerunt, dwinan.

a1300 Cursor Mundi 23695 Wit sere colurs; þat neuermar sal dime ne duine.

a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 578 Sche dwined a-waie boþe dayes & niȝtes.

c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. II. 34 [It] comeþ above þe erþe soone, but it dwyneþ anoon.

1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid ix. vii. 149 Lyke as the purpour flour..Dwynis away, as it doith faid or de.

a1599 R. Rollock Sel. Wks. (1844) II. 591 John's faith and Peter's zeal were languishing and dwining.

a1600 A. Montgomerie Misc. Poems xxii. 4 My hevy hairt, Quhilk daylie duyns, bot nevir dees.

1801 H. Macneill Poet. Wks. I. 66 See how he's dwining wi' care.

1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Dwine, to pine, to be in a decline or consumption.

1886 Lady Verney in Good Words 181 Put the plant into a splendid..vase, in which it dwined and dwindled.

1889 Spectator 21 Dec. 881/1 A race, which..must, to use a fine though half-forgotten word, begin to dwine away.

2. transitive. To cause to pine or waste away. rare.

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1597 A. Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae 739 His deadly drouth: Quhilk pynis him, and dwinis [ed. 2 dwynis] him to deid.

1894 S. R. Crockett Raiders xlii. 360 I will dwine your flesh on your bones.

Derivatives

dwined adj.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > wasting disease > [adjective]

pinedOE

dwined?a1366

tabefactc1425

consumptive1648

languishing1683

dwining1718

marasmoid1857

marasmous1857

marasmic1876

marantic1881

abiotrophic1902

?a1366 Romaunt Rose 360 Drye and dwyned al for elde.

c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. ix. i. f. 110^v/2 Ambrose..fell in ane dwynand seiknes.

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 37 His old dwynd carcas.

dwining n. and adj.

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