Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Mourned for.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Mourned for; bewailed.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
lament . - adjective
mourned for, orgrieved for
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective mourned or grieved for
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Examples
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"The Inuit language for 10,000 years never had a word for 'robin,'" McCain lamented, "and now there are robins all over their villages."
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Guerin lamented his team's tendency to take penalties.
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"The Inuit language for 10,000 years never had a word for 'robin,'" McCain lamented, "and now there are robins all over their villages."
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Of course not; this is exactly what Galton and Darwin lamented in the upper classes.
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When asked about China†™ s | one-child policy, for example, Hardin lamented that the Chinese government did not go far enough.
Think Progress » Hume: A Preemptive Strike on North Korea Would Be a ‘Successful Strategy’
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When asked about China†™ s | one-child policy |, for example, Hardin lamented that the Chinese government did not go far enough!
Think Progress » Hume: A Preemptive Strike on North Korea Would Be a ‘Successful Strategy’
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(The critic Jason Epstein lamented this when I saw him not long ago in New York.)
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(The critic Jason Epstein lamented this when I saw him not long ago in New York.)
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So the captain lamented, standing in the cockpit and surveying the ruin with wet eyes.
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So the captain lamented, standing in the cockpit and surveying the ruin with wet eyes.
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