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BEMOAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bemoan mean? 

BEMOAN (verb)
  The verb BEMOAN has 1 sense:

1. regret stronglyplay

  Familiarity information: BEMOAN used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BEMOAN (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they bemoan  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it bemoans  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: bemoaned  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: bemoaned  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: bemoaning  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Regret strongly

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

bemoan; bewail; deplore; lament

Context example:

we lamented the loss of benefits

Hypernyms (to "bemoan" is one way to...):

complain; kick; kvetch; plain; quetch; sound off (express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something


 Context examples 


And the birds of the air came too, and bemoaned Snowdrop; and first of all came an owl, and then a raven, and at last a dove, and sat by her side.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I bemoaned my desolate widow and fatherless children.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

You won't have anything else here. and having delivered her defiance all on one breath, Meg cast away her pinafore and precipitately left the field to bemoan herself in her own room.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It trembled for Mr. Rochester and his doom; it bemoaned him with bitter pity; it demanded him with ceaseless longing; and, impotent as a bird with both wings broken, it still quivered its shattered pinions in vain attempts to seek him.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)



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