Definition of "lament"

lament

/ləˈmɛnt/

noun
plural laments
1. An expression of grief, suffering, sadness or regret.
2. A song expressing grief.
verb
third-person singular simple present laments, present participle lamenting, simple past and past participle lamented
1. (intransitive) To express grief; to weep or wail; to mourn.
  Quotations
  Ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], John 16:20
2. (transitive) To express great sorrow or regret over; to bewail.
  Quotations
  Euston is so traditionally a part of the London scene that many will lament the passing of the old station when rebuilding is complete in readiness for the new electric service, which will probably be by multiple-units between Euston and Wolverhampton.
  1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 99
  By the end, Sunderland were lucky to lose by the same scoreline Northampton Town suffered against Southampton, in 1921. The Sunderland manager, Gus Poyet, lamented that it was “the most embarrassed I’ve ever been on a football pitch, without a doubt”.
  2014 October 18, Paul Doyle, “Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter”, in The Guardian
  One laugh'd at follies, one lamented crimes.
  1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Tenth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: Printed for Jacob Tonson […]

Definition of "lament"

lament

noun

verb

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