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lament

verb intransitive
To mourn; to grieve; to weep or wail; to express sorrow. Jeremiah lamented for Josiah.2 Chronicles 35:25.

lament

To regret deeply; to feel sorrow.

lament

verb transitive
To bewail; to mourn for; to bemoan; to deplore. One laughed at follies, one lamented crimes.

lament

noun

[L. lamentum.]

Grief or sorrow expressed in complaints or cries; lamentation; a weeping. Torment, and loud lament, and furious rage.