What's the difference between complain and repine?

Complain


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To give utterance to expression of grief, pain, censure, regret. etc.; to lament; to murmur; to find fault; -- commonly used with of. Also, to creak or squeak, as a timber or wheel.
  • (v. i.) To make a formal accusation; to make a charge.
  • (v. t.) To lament; to bewail.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the ketamine group, 36% of the patients complained of unpleasant dreams.
  • (2) Sewel is also recorded complaining about the level of appearance allowances at the House of Lords .
  • (3) A case is presented of a 35-year-old woman who was brought to the emergency service by ambulance complaining of vomiting for 7 days and that she could not hear well because she was 'worn out'.
  • (4) Because they generally have to be positioned on hills to get the maximum benefits of the wind, some complain that they ruin the landscape.
  • (5) The matter is now in the hands of the Guernsey police and the law officers.” One resident who is a constant target of the paper and has complained to police, Rosie Guille, said the allegations had a “huge impact on morale” on the island.
  • (6) Unions have complained about the process for Chinese-backed companies to bring overseas workers to Australia for projects worth at least $150m, because the memorandum of understanding says “there will be no requirement for labour market testing” to enter into an investment facilitation arrangements (IFA).
  • (7) The degree of discomfort was slightly greater in women who complained of breast tenderness within three days prior to the mammogram but was not strongly related to age, menstrual status, or week of the menstrual cycle.
  • (8) Lofgren complains that " the crackpot outliers of two decades ago have become the vital centre today ".
  • (9) TGI was present in high titres in all five patients who complained about recurrent goitre.
  • (10) Hyperprolactinemia, hypogonadotropinism, and subnormal plasma testosterone were found in a 65-year-old patient who had an enlarged sella turcica, complained of fatigue, and addmitted to decreased sexual interest and potency.
  • (11) Fairly frequently the patients complained about mucosal dryness and sporadically about dyspeptic symptoms, but these symptoms were not disturbing the course of the treatment.
  • (12) A forty-four-year-old woman with Takayasu's arteritis and involvement of the aortic arch and its main branches complained of precordial pain on effort.
  • (13) The £1m fine, proposed during the Leveson inquiry into press standards, was designed to demonstrate how seriously the industry was taking lessons learned after the failure of the Press Complains Commission tto investigate phone hacking at the News of the World.
  • (14) That was what the earlier debate over “currency wars” – when emerging markets complained about being inundated by financial inflows from the US – was all about.
  • (15) These results are likely to underestimate the true number of complaints because participants may be withdrawn (e.g., deaths, losses to follow-up, and refusals) before they ever complain of an adverse effect.
  • (16) Hysterography and hysteroscopy have been compared in the diagnosis of endouterine benign pathology, in a group of 50 patients, complaining meno-metrorrhagia, sterility, infertility or amenorrhea.
  • (17) A 55-year-old Japanese man was admitted to our hospital in January 1985 complaining of epigastralgia.
  • (18) Israel has complained in recent weeks of an increase in stone throwing and molotov cocktail attacks on West Bank roads and in areas adjoining mainly Palestinian areas of Jerusalem, where an elderly motorist died after crashing his car during an alleged stoning attack.
  • (19) The force said reports from its directorate of professional standards (DPS) were not routinely disclosed to complainants or outsiders.
  • (20) Although 41% of the participants complained of dry mouth, neither serious adverse effects nor evidence of medication abuse appeared.

Repine


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To fail; to wane.
  • (v. i.) To continue pining; to feel inward discontent which preys on the spirits; to indulge in envy or complaint; to murmur.
  • (n.) Vexation; mortification.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Repin found it the most powerful and poignant commission of his career, donating his fee to a memorial for the composer.
  • (2) Also hugely important is Ilya Repin’s portrait of Modest Mussorgsky, painted when the composer, at the age of 42, was at death’s door because of illness brought on by his chronic alcoholism.
  • (3) Repin with Framykoin reduced most effectively the number of micro-organisms for the longest period of time.
  • (4) Repin, one of the sesquiterpene lactones found in Russian knapweed, has been shown to possess high toxicity toward chick embryo sensory neurons.
  • (5) Since the isolation of phosphoglycerate kinase from yeast (Bücher, 1955) there have been several reports of purification methods yielding enzyme approaching molecular homogeneity, from rabbit muscle (Beisenherz et al., 1953; Czok and Bücher, 1960; Rao and Oesper, 1961; Avramov and Repin, 1965; and Scopes, 1969) and from chicken muscle (Gosselin-Rey, 1965).
  • (6) The authors compared three types of bandages (Repin with Traumacel, Repin with Framykoin and Repin alone).
  • (7) Figures such as Repin, Mikhail Vrubel and Alexander Serov are “spectacular” artists, said Blakesley but “relatively unsung in the west and deserve a higher profile”.
  • (8) He dispatched Repin, the most exciting Russian painter of his day, to a military hospital in St Petersberg to capture the composer before it was too late.
  • (9) One patient had avascular necrosis, one patient had bilateral chondrolysis, and two patients required repinning.
  • (10) The paper deals with the antimicrobial activity of repin bandages used commonly in periodontology.
  • (11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Modest Mussorgsky by Ilia Repin, 1881.
  • (12) The company runs a free photo-sharing website which allows users to pin and repin images of objects of interest, which are then themed in a grid-like structure.
  • (13) In a limpid dining room are portraits of Tolstoy and his family by the painter Repin; round the corner is his 22,000-volume library; in the woods is his unmarked oblong grave.
  • (14) The possible causal relationship between repin and equine nigropallidial encephalomacia disease prompted a more complete structural assignment of repin, which was accomplished by X-ray and 1H-nmr analyses.

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