lament
verb (formal)- lament something | lament that… | + speech
to have or express very sad feelings about somebody/something synonym bemoan, bewail对…感到悲痛;痛惜;对…表示失望 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. 她独自坐着哭泣,哀叹自己的命运。
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’.