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lament

verb
🔊/ləˈment/
🔊/ləˈment/
(formal)
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they lament
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he / she / it laments
🔊/ləˈments/
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past simple lamented
🔊/ləˈmentɪd/
🔊/ləˈmentɪd/
past participle lamented
🔊/ləˈmentɪd/
🔊/ləˈmentɪd/
-ing form lamenting
🔊/ləˈmentɪŋ/
🔊/ləˈmentɪŋ/
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  1. lament something | lament that… | + speech to have or express very sad feelings about somebody/something 对…感到悲痛；痛惜；对…表示失望synonym bemoan, bewail
    • In the poem he laments the destruction of the countryside.在那首诗里他对乡村遭到的破坏流露出悲哀。🔊🔊
    • She sat alone weeping, lamenting her fate.她独自一人哭泣，哀悼自己的命运。
    Topics Feelingsc2
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryLament is used with these nouns as the object:
    • decline
    • fact
    • failure
    • …
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    Word Originlate Middle English (as a verb): from French lamenter or Latin lamentari, from lamenta (plural) ‘weeping, wailing’.

lament

noun
🔊/ləˈment/
🔊/ləˈment/
 (formal)
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  1. a song, poem, etc. in which you express very sad feelings about somebody who has died or about something that has ended挽歌；哀诗；悼辞
    • a nostalgic lament for lost love失恋的怀旧感叹
    Topics Literature and writingc2
    Word Originlate Middle English (as a verb): from French lamenter or Latin lamentari, from lamenta (plural) ‘weeping, wailing’.