bewail
Use Bewail in a sentence
verb (used with object)
1.
to express deep sorrow for; lament: a little child bewailing the loss of her dog.
verb (used without object)
2.
to express grief.
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| —vb | |
| to express great sorrow over (a person or thing); lament | |
| be'wailed | |
| —adj | |
| be'wailer | |
| —n | |
| be'wailing | |
| —n, —adj | |
| be'wailingly | |
| —adv | |
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Example sentences
Humanitarian agencies, with an eye on external financing, bewail the lack of development.
He who is the cause of his own misfortune may bewail it himself.
But light is surely coming, and the friends of destruction will preach and bewail in vain.
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