单词 | deplore |
释义 | de·plore 1. obsolete 2. a. < deplore the death of a close friend > b. < I deplore that I cannot conform to that practice — Tor Ulving > c. < they deplore the fifteen years of slow whittling away of basic liberties — E.A.Mowrer > < their zeal to deplore the inferior position to which men have shoved women — Paul Engle > 3. obsolete Synonyms: < helping the process of moral decay which he deplores — New Republic > < he deplores the fact that there is dissension within the Church — Robert Corkey > < how profoundly a man, holding that view, must deplore the whole course of academical literary study — A.T.Quiller-Couch > < purists deplore slang — Quarterly Journal of Speech > lament implies a vehement demonstration of sorrow suggesting mourning but without tears or similar manifestation, usu., however, implying passionate utterance < his yelling rose into an indignant lament as he waved his arms more wildly — Paul Bowles > < jails where the members were given ample time to lament their errors — R.A.Billington > < we need not gloat or lament about the limitations of finite minds — A.G.N.Flew > bewail and bemoan imply intense sorrow finding an outlet in words or cries, bewail usually suggesting a loud and bemoan a lugubrious expression of grief or, in popular use, grievance or complaint < valet bewailing the loss of his wages — Samuel Alexander > < the large number who bewail the materialistic tendencies of modern life — Times Literary Supplement > < he bemoaned their fate, his mood steadily growing gloomier and gloomier — O.E.Rölvaag > < as ready as any tycoon to bemoan the woes of being wealthy — Time > |
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