lamentverb [ I or T ]
uk/ləˈment/us/ləˈment/to express sadness and feeling sorry about something:
The poem opens by lamenting (over) the death of a young man.
My grandmother, as usual, lamented the decline in moral standards in today's society.
The late lamented (= dead and remembered with love) Frank Giotto used to live here.
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Sadness and regret
- a heavy heart idiom
- be/weigh on your conscience idiom
- bitter
- bring a lump to/have a lump in your throat idiom
- broken-hearted
- gloom
- gloomy
- guilt
- guilt complex
- guilt trip
- guilt-ridden
- guilt trip
- melancholy
- mourn
- repent
- rue
- rue the day idiom
- rueful
- sackcloth
- sad
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Remembering people who have died
lamentnoun [ C ]
uk/ləˈment/us/ləˈment/formala song, poem, or other piece of writing that expresses sadness about someone's death:
The whole play can be interpreted as a lament for lost youth.
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Remembering people who have died
- bereaved
- bereavement
- epitaph
- grief
- grieving
- in memory of sb idiom
- keen
- memorial
- Memorial Day
- memory
- mourn
- mournful
- mourning
- obituary
- Remembrance Day
- requiem
- rest
- rest in peace idiom
- rip
- shrine
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Pieces of writing