rue¹ /roo/

1. To be sorry for
2. To repent of
3. To wish not to have been or happened
4. To feel compassion for
5. To cause to feel regret, grieve (archaic)

1. To feel remorse or regret
2. To take pity
3. To change one's mind, contemplate backing out

1. Repentance
2. Regret
3. Sorrow
4. Pity

rueˈful adjective

1. Sorrowful
2. Piteous
3. Deplorable
4. Mournful
5. Melancholy

rueˈfully adverb

rueˈfulness noun

rueˈing or ruˈing noun

Repentance

rueˈ-bargain noun (dialect)

A forfeit for withdrawing from a bargain

take the rue (Scot)

To change one's mind, esp about an intended marriage

rue² /roo/

1. A strong-smelling shrubby Mediterranean plant (Ruta graveolens), with pinnately divided leaves and greenish-yellow flowers, punningly (see rue¹) symbolic of repentance, compunction or compassion
2. Any other member of its genus
3. Extended with qualification to other plants (see goat's-rue under goat, meadow-rue under meadow and wall rue under wall)

rueˈ-leaved adjective

• blow the whistle
• blow the whistle on
• blowtorch
• blowtorches
• blow up
• blow-up
• blow upon
• blow-ups
• blow-valve
• blow-valves
• blowy
• blowze
• blowzed
• blowzes
• blowzier
• blowziest
• blowzy
• BLPC
• BLT
• blub
• blubbed
• blubber
• blubbered
• blubbering
• blubbers