Why this word is great
FORPINE — [Verb] To waste away or languish, especially through suffering, grief, or torment. From Middle English forpinen, equivalent to the intensive prefix for- + pine (meaning "to languish or waste away from grief or longing"). Unlike "languish," which suggests a passive fading from neglect, or "repine," which denotes fretful complaint, to forpine is to be actively consumed from within by a fixed sorrow. It is the hollowing of cheeks during a vigil that lasts years, the silent shrinking of a fruit on a sun-bleached sill, the tree shedding its leaves in midsummer from a blight at its heart—a physical decrement where the body becomes a monument to its own attrition, grief made metabolic.