Deplore

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To feel or express strong disapproval of; condemn: "Somehow we had to master events, not simply deplore them” ( Henry A. Kissinger).
  • v. To express sorrow or grief over.
  • v. To regret; bemoan.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To bewail; to weep bitterly over; to feel sorrow for.
  • v. To condemn; to express strong disapproval of.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To feel or to express deep and poignant grief for; to bewail; to lament; to mourn; to sorrow over.
  • v. To complain of.
  • v. To regard as hopeless; to give up.
  • verb-intransitive. To lament.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To lament; bewail; mourn; feel or express deep and poignant grief for or in regard to.
  • To despair of; regard or give up as desperate.
  • To tell of sympathetically.
  • Synonyms To bemoan, grieve for, sorrow over.
  • To utter lamentations; lament; moan.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. express strong disapproval of
  • v. regret strongly
  • Verb Form
    deplored    deplores    deploring   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    sound off    kick    quetch    complain    plain    kvetch   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    lament    bemoan    mourn    bewail    condemn   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Boer    Bohr    C4    Dior    Dore    Flore    Fore    Gabor    Gore    Igor