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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To express grief over; lament.
  2. v. 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).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To lament; bewail; express sorrow for: as, to bemoan the loss of a son.
  2. Reflexively, to bewail one's lot.
  3. To pity; feel or express sympathy with or pity for.

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive to complain about; to dismay or worry about something

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To express deep grief for by moaning; to express sorrow for; to lament; to bewail; to pity or sympathize with.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. regret strongly

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English bemenen, bimenen, from Old English bemǣnan ("to bemoan, bewail, lament"), equivalent to be- (“about, concerning”) +‎ moan. Alteration of vowel from Middle to Modern English due to analogy with moan. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English bimonen, alteration (influenced by mone, moan) of bimenen, from Old English bemǣnan : be-, be- + mǣnan, to complain of. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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