lament
verb/ləˈment/
/ləˈment/
(formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they lament | /ləˈment/ /ləˈment/ |
| he / she / it laments | /ləˈments/ /ləˈments/ |
| past simple lamented | /ləˈmentɪd/ /ləˈmentɪd/ |
| past participle lamented | /ləˈmentɪd/ /ləˈmentɪd/ |
| -ing form lamenting | /ləˈmentɪŋ/ /ləˈmentɪŋ/ |
- lament something | lament that… | + speech to have or express very sad feelings about somebody/something synonym bemoan, bewail
- In the poem he laments the destruction of the countryside.
- She sat alone weeping, lamenting her fate.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryLament is used with these nouns as the object:- decline
- fact
- failure
- …
Word Originlate Middle English (as a verb): from French lamenter or Latin lamentari, from lamenta (plural) ‘weeping, wailing’.Want to learn more?
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