Definition of "deplore"

deplore

/dɪˈplɔɹ/

verb
third-person singular simple present deplores, present participle deploring, simple past and past participle deplored
1. (transitive) To bewail; to weep bitterly over; to feel sorrow for.
2. (transitive) To condemn; to express strong disapproval of.
  Quotations
  Sir Thomas Royden, Chairman of the L.M.S.R., and Mr. Robert Holland-Martin, Chairman of the Southern Railway, both deplored the wholesale robbery and petty pilferage which have increased until they have reached appalling dimensions.
  1942 May-June, “Theft on the Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 130
3. (obsolete) To regard as hopeless; to give up.
  Quotations
  The physicians do make a kind of scruple and religion to stay with the patient after the disease is deplored; whereas, in my judgement, they ought both to inquire the skill, and to give the attendances, for the facilitating and assuaging of the pains and agonies of death.
  1605, Francis Bacon, Advancement of Learning