DEPLORE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does deplore mean? 

• DEPLORE (verb)
  The verb DEPLORE has 2 senses:

1. express strong disapproval of

2. regret strongly

  Familiarity information: DEPLORE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEPLORE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they deplore    ... he / she / it deplores   
Past simple: deplored   
Past participle: deplored   
-ing form: deploring   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Express strong disapproval of

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

We deplore the government's treatment of political prisoners

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

criticise; criticize; knock; pick apart (find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "deplore"):

accurse; anathematise; anathematize; anathemise; anathemize; comminate; execrate (curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

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 "deplore" is one way to...):

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

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They deplore that there was a traffic accident

 Context examples 

I deplored the untimely death of Mr. Spenlow, most sincerely, and shed tears in doing so.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He bitterly deplored the false pride which led his friend to a conduct so little worthy of the affection that united them.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Emma could not deplore her future absence as any deduction from her own enjoyment.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Bitterly did he deplore a deficiency which now he could scarcely comprehend to have been possible.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Mary deplored the necessity for herself.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

It always happens so in this vale of tears, there is an inevitability about such things which we can only wonder at, deplore, and bear as we best can.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Everything that one does seems, no matter how right it may be, to bring on the very thing which is most to be deplored.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

As for my mother, when we had carried her up to the hamlet, a little cold water and salts and that soon brought her back again, and she was none the worse for her terror, though she still continued to deplore the balance of the money.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

They felt and they deplored—but they could not resent it; and they parted, endeavouring to hope that such a change in the general, as each believed almost impossible, might speedily take place, to unite them again in the fullness of privileged affection.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I fancy that every one of his cases has found its way into your collection, and I must admit, Watson, that you have some power of selection, which atones for much which I deplore in your narratives.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)