bewail

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
13
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/bɪˈweɪl/

Definition of bewail

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. To wail over; to feel or express deep sorrow for.
    “[…] Though in this city he Hath widow’d and unchilded many a one, Which to this hour bewail the injury, Yet he shall have a noble memory.”
    “And all wept, and bewailed her: but he said, Weep not; she is not dead, but sleepeth.”
    “[…] when the wind Blows keenly, it sends forth a creaking sound (Above the general roar of woods and crags) Distinctly heard from far--a doleful note! As if (so Grecian shepherds would have deemed) The Hamadryad, pent within, bewailed Some bitter wrong.”
    “About John Marin, there move sad, disgruntled beings, full of talk and lamentations. [...] They bewail the fact that in America, soil is poor and unconducive to growth, and men remain unmoved by growing green. But Marin persists, and what ebullience and good humour, in the rocky ungentle loam?”
    “Far from bewailing the existence of mysteries-for-humans, we should be extremely grateful for it.”

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Etymology

From Middle English bewailen, equivalent to be- (“over, about”) + wail.

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