Deplore

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Deplore \De*plore"\, v. i.
     To lament. --Gray.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Deplore \De*plore"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Deplored}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Deploring}.] [L. deplorare; de- + plorare to cry out,
     wail, lament; prob. akin to pluere to rain, and to E. flow:
     cf. F. d['e]plorer. Cf. Flow.]
     1. To feel or to express deep and poignant grief for; to
        bewail; to lament; to mourn; to sorrow over.
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              To find her, or forever to deplore
              Her loss.                             --Milton.
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              As some sad turtle his lost love deplores. --Pope.
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     2. To complain of. [Obs.] --Shak.
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     3. To regard as hopeless; to give up. [Obs.] --Bacon.
  
     Syn: To {Deplore}, {Mourn}, {Lament}, {Bewail}, {Bemoan}.
  
     Usage: Mourn is the generic term, denoting a state of grief
            or sadness. To lament is to express grief by outcries,
            and denotes an earnest and strong expression of
            sorrow. To deplore marks a deeper and more prolonged
            emotion. To bewail and to bemoan are appropriate only
            to cases of poignant distress, in which the grief
            finds utterance either in wailing or in moans and
            sobs. A man laments his errors, and deplores the ruin
            they have brought on his family; mothers bewail or
            bemoan the loss of their children.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  deplore
       v 1: express strong disapproval of; "We deplore the government's
            treatment of political prisoners"
       2: regret strongly; "I deplore this hostile action"; "we
          lamented the loss of benefits" [syn: {lament}, {bewail}, {bemoan}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  26 Moby Thesaurus words for "deplore":
     be sorry for, bemoan, bewail, cry, deprecate, dirge, disapprove,
     elegize, give sorrow words, grieve, keen, knell, lament, moan,
     mourn, regret, repent, repine, rue, rue the day, sigh,
     sing the blues, sorrow, wail, weep, weep over