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third-person singular simple present forpines, present participle forpining, simple past and past participle forpined
(intransitive, obsolete) To pine away. quotations
But, through long anguish and selfe-murd'ring He was so wasted and forpined quight
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
(transitive, archaic) To waste away through suffering or through torment. quotations
[…] While to my sight thy giant stature rearsIts bulk forpined upon these savage rocksIn shameful bonds the linked adamant locks.
1924, G. M. Cookson, Prometheus Bound