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Deplore

//dɪˈploɹ// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To bewail; to weep bitterly over; to feel sorrow for. transitive

    "I deplore my neighbour for having lost his job."

  2. 2
    express strong condemnation of wordnet
  3. 3
    To condemn; to express strong disapproval of. transitive

    "I deplore how you treated him at the party."

  4. 4
    regret strongly wordnet
  5. 5
    To regard as hopeless; to give up. obsolete

    "The physicians do make a kind of scruple and religion to stay with the patient after the disease is deplored; whereas, in my judgement, they ought both to inquire the skill, and to give the attendances, for the facilitating and assuaging of the pains and agonies of death."

Etymology

From Middle French déplorer, from Old French deplorer, from Latin dēplōrāre (“to lament over, bewail”), from dē- + plōrāre (“to wail, weep aloud”); origin uncertain.

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