Bemoan
[bɪ'məʊn] or [bɪ'mon]
Definition
(v. t.) To express deep grief for by moaning; to express sorrow for; to lament; to bewail; to pity or sympathize with.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Bewail, lament, deplore, moan over, mourn over, express sorrow for.
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Definition
v.t. to lament: bewail: to pity.—v.i. to grieve.—ns. Bemoan′er; Bemoan′ing.
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Examples
- It is true I little respect women or girls who are loquacious either in boasting the triumphs, or bemoaning the mortifications, of feelings. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I bemoaned my desolate widow and fatherless children. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- He hid his face in his burning hands, and feebly bemoaned his own weakness, and the cruelty of his persecutors. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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