dwine

From Middle English dwynen, from Old English dwīnan, from Proto-West Germanic *dwīnan, from Proto-Germanic *dwīnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwey- (“to slip away, dwindle, die”), from *dʰew- (“to pass away, die”). Compare West Frisian ferdwine, Dutch dwijnen, verdwijnen, Low German dwienen, verdwienen, Icelandic dvína. See also English dwindle, dush.

• IPA^(key): /dwaɪn/
• Rhymes: -aɪn

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.

• dwindle

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.

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈdwiː.ne/
• IPA^(key): /ˈdwi.ne/

dwīne

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

dwine

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

• dwyne

From Old English dwīnan, from Proto-Germanic *dwīnaną.

• IPA^(key): /dwəin/

dwine (third-person singular simple present dwines, present participle dwinin, simple past dwinet, past participle dwinet)

1. to waste away, wither, decline

dwine (plural dwines)

1. a decline, a waning