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bewail

/bɪˈweɪl/

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verb

/bɪˈweɪl/C2formalobsolete
  • ruУстаревший глагол, означающий выражать великую печаль или скорбь по поводу чего-либо; оплакивать или рыдать.

An archaic verb meaning to express great sorrow or lamentation over something; to mourn or wail about.

  1. Express great regretC1formal

    To express deep sorrow, regret, or disappointment about something.

    ruОплакивать

    • The community bewailed the loss of the historic building.
    • She bewailed her decision to leave the job.
    • Many critics bewailed the decline of traditional values.

    Synonymsbemoandeploregrievekeenlamentmournwail

    Antonymscelebrateexultgloryrejoice

Forms
  • bewailed past participle
  • bewailed past simple
  • bewailing present participle
  • bewails third person singular
Vocab Bloom Hub English dataset · 0.3.1

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Vocabulary data from the Vocab Bloom Hub English dataset (CC BY 4.0), https://huggingface.co/datasets/Fristail27/vocab-bloom-hub-en

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