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  1. 1. v. i. To express or feel sorrow; to weep or wail; to mourn. Source: opted
  2. 2. v. t. To mourn for; to bemoan; to bewail. Source: opted
  3. 3. v. Grief or sorrow expressed in complaints or cries; lamentation; a wailing; a moaning; a weeping. Source: opted
  4. 4. v. An elegy or mournful ballad, or the like. Source: opted
  5. 5. n. a cry of sorrow and grief Source: wordnet
  6. 6. n. a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person Source: wordnet
  7. 7. n. a mournful poem; a lament for the dead Source: wordnet
  8. 8. v. express grief verbally Source: wordnet
  9. 9. v. regret strongly Source: wordnet
  10. 10. To express or feel sorrow; to weep or wail; to mourn. Jeremiah lamented for Josiah. 2 Chron. xxxv. 25. Ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice. John xvi. 20. To mourn for; to bemoan; to bewail. One laughed at follies, one lamented crimes. Dryden. Syn. -- To deplore; mourn; bewail. See Deplore. 1. Grief or sorrow expressed in complaints or cries; lamentation; a wailing; a moaning; a weeping. Torment, and loud lament, and furious rage. Milton. 2. An elegy or mournful ballad, or the like. Source: webster
  11. 11. To express or feel sorrow; to weep or wail; to mourn.Jeremiah lamented for Josiah. 2 Chron. xxxv. 25.Ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice. John xvi. 20. Source: adambom
  12. 12. n:24/v:76 n. a cry of sorrow and grief v. express grief verbally Source: ecdict

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