1. Express grief verbally
   "we lamented the death of the child"
   - keen 
2. Regret strongly
   "we lamented the loss of benefits"
   - deplore, bewail, bemoan

1. A cry of sorrow and grief
   "their pitiful laments could be heard throughout the ward"
   - lamentation, plaint, wail 
2. A song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person
   - dirge, coronach, requiem, threnody, threnode 
3. A mournful poem; a lament for the dead
   - elegy

Derived forms: lamented, laments, lamenting

See also: lamentable, lamentation, lamenter

Type of: complain, complaint, express emotion, express feelings, kick, kvetch [N. Amer], plain [archaic], poem, quetch, song, sound off, verse form, vocal

Encyclopedia: Lament

• discouragement
• discouraging
• discouragingly
• discourse
• discourteous
• discourteously
• discourtesy
• discover
• discoverable
• discovered
• discovered check
• discoverer
• discovery
• Discovery Day
• discredit
• discreditable
• discreditably
• discredited
• discreet
• discreetly
• discreetness
• discrepancy
• serpent
• serpent fern
• serpent star