lament
/luh-MENT/verbto mourn or express grief; a passionate expression of grief
“Fans lamented the closing of the old ground.”
- Synonyms
- mourn, grieve, bewail
- Antonyms
- celebrate, rejoice
- Memory hook
- lamentum (wailing): grief spoken aloud.
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