regret
/ɹɪˈɡɹɛt/ verb A2- To feel sorry about (a thing that has or has not happened), afterthink: to wish that a thing had not happened, that something else had happened instead. · He regretted his words.· I don't regret enrolling in law, but I regret not studying some Chinese.
- To feel sorry about (any thing). · I regret that I have to do this, but I don't have a choice.· They said they regretted to inform us that the train would be late.
He/she/it regrets · Past regretted · Past participle regretted · -ing form regretting
Verb forms
- Base form
- regret
- He/she/it
- regrets
- Past
- regretted
- Past participle
- regretted
- -ing form
- regretting
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
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She held her head very high, but she was conscious of an odd feeling of regret.
Marilla felt a queer regret over Anne’s inches.
and regretting that she could not go to the concert herself to hear her girl recite.
We are not on friendly terms, and it always gives me pain to meet him, but I have no reason for avoiding _him_ but what I might proclaim to all the world--a sense of very great ill-usage, and most painful regrets at his being what he is.
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