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Meaning lament meaning

What does lament mean?

lament

— verb express grief verbally we lamented the death of the child — noun a cry of sorrow and grief their pitiful laments could be heard throughout the ward — noun a mournful poem; a lament for the dead — verb (= deplore) regret strongly I deplore this hostile action we lamented the loss of benefits — noun (= dirge) a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person

Synonyms lament synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as lament?

lament English » English

grieve mourn bewail cry wail moan weep groan bemoan sorrow deplore elegy dirge regret complain lamentation complaint threnody sigh indictment grumble grievance denunciation charge blame allegation accusation accusal whine requiem plaint keen cry over rue feel sad be sad woe sob sigh in admiration shed tears sadden sad repent outcry jeremiad grieve over feel sorrowful feel depressed feel blue distressed

Topics lament topics

What do people use lament to talk about?
Person Life Die

Mourn
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad

Sad
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad

Sorry
Social behavior Social activity Music

Sing

Conjugation lament conjugation

How do you conjugate lament?

lament · verb

Examples lament examples

How do I use lament in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I call on the living, lament the dead, shatter the lightning.

Movie subtitles

Why do they lament?
Set down. set down your honorable load. whilst I awhile obsequiously lament. the pale ashes of the house of Lancaster.
But it does no good to lament that now.
Whenever a McTarry dies, he comes down from the mountain, over the loch and through the heather, playing the clan lament.
Lament, you boars!
With painful hearts in Hungary can we say the lament what Jeremiah wrote about the Jews.
You made my lament Your own.
Counting their damages, Lament over their plight.
A lament for the dead.
The greater your lament is, the greater is my rage.
Let's cry together, unite our pain in a lament.
Without lament and without burial, he shall be left to the birds, who lurk already to gorge themselves.
We mourn, we lament.
The fear of every loving heart, the lament of every forlorn soul.
That's why poor savages, From early morn till night, Counting their damages, Lament over their plight.
The report does lament this little oversight.
Do you know why their cry sounds like a lament?
What drives you to such wild lament?
You get Slamming Sammy Sneed. to tote up the board and lament all those balls he's knocked the covers off.
But also the True Bride's lament.
I n this day of happiness does the Stuart lament alone trouble Britain?
I lament.
I lament to have brought so bad news.
A plaintive lament sung by a mechanical man who longs to be human.
Lament, me would do them.
Those that falls to me well not lament it.
When we are friends it will lament that lack of confidence.
Do you lament your decision?
Why are you so far from my salvation and from the voice of my lament?
I'm sure he will lament this.
Lying in a cozy hammock. is a job for Michalak, Oh, they did lament.
Oh, they did lament.
I lament that this encounter has been tarnished by such an irreparable loss.
Only through divine grace that comes with devotion. can one understand Monism. Why lament over it?
You are very much delayed today, Cynthia. - I lament.

News and current affairs

Drug companies often lament that the firms from which they are sourcing innovations do not perform clinical trials to their specifications, forcing them to repeat the work.
EU leaders lament Ukraine's political divisions and slow pace of reform, and the country's leaders need to address these criticisms.
All French finance ministers lament that they had very little room for cutting costs, given the scope of entitlements, particularly civil servants' salaries and pensions.
If not, they can only lament the loss of their own identity.
Twenty years after Mikhail Gorbachev launched perestroika, many people have come to lament the slow pace of reform in Russia under President Vladimir Putin.
Beyond Europe, Japanese women lament how far they must still go in a relentlessly male and sexist culture.
Indeed, in reflecting on their childhoods, many graduates may lament that their fathers spent too little time at home, or were less nurturing than they could have been.
Exploration is proceeding only hesitantly and shale-gas production has not even started, prompting many observers to lament that Europe is about to miss the next energy revolution.
To lament the shift in global power and influence away from the heartlands of Europe and the US is useless.
Bureaucrats lament ministerial dithering.
Nevertheless, although some still lament the emphasis that universities now place on research, proponents of expanding the university's mission have for the most part been vindicated on pedagogical grounds.
SEOUL - While the United Nations celebrates its 70th anniversary in 2015, Koreans will lament 70 years of national division.
The many other Africans who lament their nations' flagging democratic transitions would do well to draw strength from Kenya's milestone.

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