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Middle English
Verb
forpinen
- to pine away
- 14th Century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Complaynt of Phylomene
But I which spend, the darke and dreadful night,
In watch and ward, when those birds take their rest,
Forpine my selfe, that Louers might delight,
To heare the notes, which breake out of my breste.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)