lament
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British, America) IPA: /ləˈmɛnt/
lament (plural laments)
Translations- French: lamentation
- German: Klage, Wehklage, Klagen, Wehklagen
- Italian: lamento
- Portuguese: lamento, lamentação
- Russian: стена́ние
- Spanish: lamento, lamentación
- French: complainte
- German: Klagegesang, Klagelied
- Portuguese: lamento
- Russian: эле́гия
lament (laments, present participle lamenting; past and past participle lamented)
- (intransitive) To express grief; to weep or wail; to mourn.
- Bible, John xvi. 20
- Ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice.
- Bible, John xvi. 20
- (transitive) To feel great sorrow or regret; to bewail.
- 2014, Paul Doyle, "Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter ↗", The Guardian, 18 October 2014:
- By the end, Sunderland were lucky to lose by the same scoreline Northampton Town suffered against Southampton, in 1921. The Sunderland manager, Gus Poyet, lamented that it was “the most embarrassed I’ve ever been on a football pitch, without a doubt”.
- One laughed at follies, one lamented crimes.
- 2014, Paul Doyle, "Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter ↗", The Guardian, 18 October 2014:
- French: se lamenter
- German: wehklagen
- Italian: lamentarsi
- Portuguese: lamentar
- Russian: стена́ть
- Spanish: lamentar
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