repine
/rɪˈpʌɪn
/verb [no object] literary
Feel or express discontent; fret: you mustn’t let yourself repine...
- The Soviet government did not waste time repining over Daoud.
- The objective may seem to some an unworthy one but it takes account of the realities without repining uselessly over them.
- Then he is envious, covetous, jealous and mistrustful, timorous, sordid, outwardly dissembling, sluggish, suspicious, stubborn, a condemner of women, a close liar, malicious, murmuring, never contented, ever repining.
Synonyms
fret, be/feel unhappy, mope, languish, eat one's heart out, be/feel miserable, be/feel upset, be/feel despondent, brood;
lament, grieve, mourn, sorrow, pine, agonize
Origin
Early 16th century: from re- 'again' + the verb pine2, on the pattern of repent.