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English
Etymology
From be- + whine.
Verb
bewhine (third-person singular simple present bewhines, present participle bewhining, simple past and past participle bewhined)
- (transitive) To whine about.
1921, Alfred Lee Donaldson, A History of the Adirondacks, volume 2, page 101:He bemoaned and bewhined it to all who would listen, and men began, half-jokingly, to call the scene of the tragedy Tallow Lake.
1937, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, volume 1, page 47:He is savagely delineated by Euripides as a ruthless craven, bewhining and bewailing the loss of the woman he had driven to her grave, hurling abuse at his father for remaining alive and trying to saddle him with the moral guilt of Alkestis' death.
2016, Ukraine: Jamala will sing "1944" at Eurovision 2016:And Jamala is bewhining and bescreeching this event to remind all Europe and particularly Russia of this injustice.