lament
verb (formal)- lament something | lament that… | + speech
to have or express very sad feelings about somebody/something synonym bemoan, bewail對…感到悲痛;痛惜;對…表示失望 In the poem he laments the destruction of the countryside. 在那首詩裏他對鄉村遭到的破壞流露出悲哀。 She sat alone weeping, lamenting her fate. 她獨自坐着哭泣,哀歎自己的命運。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryLament is used with these nouns as the object:- decline
- fact
- failure
- …
Word Originlate Middle English (as a verb): from French lamenter or Latin lamentari, from lamenta (plural) ‘weeping, wailing’.