forpine
verbUK /fəˈpaɪn/ · US /fəɹˈpaɪn/
Etymology From Middle English forpinen, equivalent to for- + pine. Cognate with Middle Low German vorpinen (“to forpine”).
1
Obsolete To pine away.
- But, through long anguish and selfe-murd'ring He was so wasted and forpined quight1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
2
Archaic To waste away through suffering or through torment.
- […] While to my sight thy giant stature rears Its bulk forpined upon these savage rocks In shameful bonds the linked adamant locks.1924, G. M. Cookson, Prometheus Bound: