Repining

Full definition of repining

Noun

1. The act of fretting or feeling discontent or of murmuring.
• 1835, s:Author:William Gilmore Simms, s:The Partisan, Doomed to a brief existence, she wasted not the hours in painful repinings at a fate so stern; but still regarding it as inevitable, she prepared as calmly as possible to encounter it.

Verb

1. Present participle of repine

Anagrams

• ripening