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lament

noun

1 the widow's laments:

wail, wailing, lamentation, moan, moaning, groan, weeping, crying, sob, sobbing, keening, howl, complaint;

rare jeremiad, ululation.

2 he sang a lament for the dead:

dirge, requiem, elegy, funeral song/chant, burial hymn, dead march, keen, plaint, knell;

Scottish coronach;

rare threnody, monody, epicedium.

verb

1 the mourners lamented a life taken so suddenly:

mourn, grieve (for/over), weep for, shed tears for;

sorrow, wail, moan, groan, weep, cry, sob, keen, plain, howl, pine for, beat one's breast;

rare ululate.

▷antonyms celebrate, rejoice.

2 he lamented the modernizing of the old buildings:

bemoan, bewail, complain about, deplore, regret, rue;

protest against, speak out against, object to, oppose, disagree with, fulminate against, inveigh against, rail at, make a fuss about, denounce.

lament Oxford Dictionary of English