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発音

• IPA: /dwaɪn/
• 韻: -aɪn

動詞

dwine (third-person singular simple present dwines, present participle dwining, simple past and past participle dwined)

1. (archaic outside Scotland and dialects) To wither, decline, pine away.
   • 1897 August 5, The Morning Bulletin, Rockhampton, Qld, page 4, column 5:

     Without visible mark or sign she was elf-shot; and the proof of this appeared from her going off her milk, dwining away, and dying before her calves could be counted on the hooves of one foot.

関連する語

• dwindle

名詞

dwine (countable and uncountable, plural not attested)

1. (rare) Decline, wane.

   Synonyms: dwindling, dwining

   • 1896, The Sunday at Home, volume 43, page 750:

     Old Mrs. Jennery, of Springholm, never had a daughter of her own, neither had her son, the father of the twin lads whom he left to his mother's care when he died of the dwine, as the country-folk called it.

   • 2009, Sheri S. Tepper, Grass, page 327:

     They stopped only when they came to the first deep pools gleaming with oily reflections in the dwine of the daylight.

アナグラム

• Edwin, Wedin, Wendi, Widen, indew, widen, winde, wined

動詞

dwīne

1. inflection of dwīnan:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. singular present subjunctive

動詞

dwine

1. inflection of dwīnan:
   1. second-person singular preterite indicative
   2. singular preterite subjunctive