English

Verb

forpine ‎(third-person singular simple present forpines, present participle forpining, simple past and past participle forpined)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To pine away.
2. (transitive, archaic) To waste away through suffering or through torment.
   • 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.

   • 1924, G. M. Cookson, Prometheus Bound

     ...While to my sight thy giant stature rears / Its bulk forpined upon these savage rocks / In shameful bonds the linked adamant locks.