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bemoan
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synonyms: bewail ???
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Definition:To express deep grief for by moaning; to express sorrow for; to lament; to bewail; to pity or sympathize with.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Implores their pity, and his pain bemoans.
Dryden.
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if you can ever undo any scrap of what you have done amiss in keeping a part of her right nature away from her, it will be better to do that than to bemoan the past through a hundred years.Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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