lament
/ləˈmɛnt/ verb C2- To express grief; to weep or wail; to mourn.
- To express great sorrow or regret over; to bewail.
He/she/it laments · Past lamented · Past participle lamented · -ing form lamenting
Verb forms
- Base form
- lament
- He/she/it
- laments
- Past
- lamented
- Past participle
- lamented
- -ing form
- lamenting
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Your profusion makes me saving; and if you lament over him much longer, my heart will be as light as a feather.”
One of their company, an old man, said, “Let us cease lamenting, my mates, for, as it seems to me, sorrow is always the twin sister of joy; and it was only to be looked for that we, who just now were over-rejoiced, should next have something to make us sad.”
Unwilling to lose his filberts, and yet unable to withdraw his hand, he burst into tears and bitterly lamented his disappointment.
He often lamented his own hard fate and contrasted it with the luxury and idleness of the Lapdog, till at last one day he broke his cords and halter, and galloped into his master’s house, kicking up his heels without measure, and frisking and fawning as well as he could.
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