forpine

From Middle English forpinen, equivalent to for- +‎ pine. Cognate with Middle Low German vorpinen (“to forpine”).

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

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To pine away.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)

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.