[roo] 
,verb, rued, ru⋅ing, noun | 1. | to feel sorrow over; repent of; regret bitterly: to rue the loss of opportunities. |
| 2. | to wish that (something) had never been done, taken place, etc.: I rue the day he was born. |
| 3. | to feel sorrow, repentance, or regret. |
| 4. | sorrow; repentance; regret. |
| 5. | pity or compassion. |
[roo] ,| any strongly scented plant of the genus Ruta, esp. R. graveolens, having yellow flowers and leaves formerly used in medicine. |
| rue 1 (rōō) v. rued, ru·ing, rues v. tr. To feel regret, remorse, or sorrow for. v. intr. To feel regret, remorse, or sorrow. n. Sorrow; regret: "To their rue, the Social Democrats have to acknowledge that the Conservative-Liberal coalition has captured the center where elections are won" (Elizabeth Pond). [Middle English ruen, from Old English hrēowan, to affect with grief, and hrēowian, to repent.] ru'er n. |
| rue 2 (rōō) n. Any of various aromatic southwest Asian or Mediterranean plants of the genus Ruta, especially the ornamental R. graveolens, having bipinnately compound leaves that yield an acrid volatile oil formerly used in medicine. [Middle English, from Old French, from Latin rūta, probably from Greek rhūtē.] |
