bemoan

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O thou Dove of the homestead, ne'er cease to bemoan * Whose moons and full moons[FN#353] sorest severance dree: Masrúr, fare softly and mourn our loss; * Loving thee our eyes lose their brilliancy: Would thy sight had seen, on our marching day, * Tears shed by a heart in Hell's flagrancy!

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  1. transitive verb To express grief over; lament.
  2. transitive verb To express disapproval of or regret for; deplore: "Tom Brokaw of NBC News recently bemoaned 'the cancer of the sound bite' afflicting Presidential campaigning” (John Tierney).

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  1. Middle English bimonen, alteration (influenced by mone, moan) of bimenen, from Old English bemǣnan : be-, be- + mǣnan, to complain of; see mei-no- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English (with change of vowel; cf. moan) bemenen, bimenen, from Anglo-Saxon bemǣnan, bemoan, from be- + mǣnan, moan: see be- and moan.
 

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