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lament
What does lament mean?
lament (verb): to express grief; to weep or wail; to mourn.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you pronounce lament?
/ləˈmɛnt/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does lament come from?
A back-formation from lamentation or else from Middle French lamenter and its etymon Latin lāmentor (“to wail, weep”), from lāmentum (“wailing, moaning, weeping”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Words related to lament
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “lament” mean?
be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budge
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make more intense, stronger, or more marked
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to express grief; to weep or wail; to mourn
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to change greatly the appearance or form of
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