Deplore
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transitive verb.
To feel or express strong disapproval of; condemn.
transitive verb.
To express sorrow or grief over.
transitive verb.
To regret; bemoan.
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.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
transitive verb.
To feel or to express deep and poignant grief for; to bewail; to lament; to mourn; to sorrow over.
transitive verb.
To complain of.
transitive verb.
To regard as hopeless; to give up.
intransitive verb.
To lament.
Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
verb.
To
bewail
; to
weep
bitterly over; to feel
sorrow
for.
verb.
To
condemn
; to express strong
disapproval
of.
WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
verb.
express strong disapproval of
verb.
regret strongly
Word Usage
"What I deplore is the fact that we are now - what we now - almost everything written or spoken in English and Spanish."
Etymologically Related
deplorable
deploration
Hypernym
Words that are more generic or abstract
complain
kick
kvetch
plain
quetch
Rhyme
Words with the same terminal sound
Boer
Bohr
C4
Dior
Dore
Synonym
Words with the same meaning
be sorry for
bemoan
bemoan
bewail
bewail
verb-form
deplored
deplores
deploring