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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bewail
verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I occasionally bewail getting entirely too much education and taking it far too seriously.
▪ Men propping up the bar over lunch will bewail the loss of earlier freedoms when they were footloose and fancy free.
▪ Republicans bewail what they say is a likelihood that Democrats will sit on nominations.
▪ There was nothing so boring, she thought, as some one who was continually bewailing her lot.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bewail

Bewail \Be*wail"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bewailed; p. pr. & vb. n. Bewailing.] To express deep sorrow for, as by wailing; to lament; to wail over.

Hath widowed and unchilded many a one, Which to this hour bewail the injury.
--Shak.

Syn: To bemoan; grieve. -- See Deplore.

Bewail

Bewail \Be*wail"\, v. i. To express grief; to lament.
--Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bewail

c.1300, from be- + wail (v.). Related: Bewailed; bewailing.

Wiktionary
bewail

vb. To wail over; to feel or express deep sorrow for

WordNet
bewail

v. regret strongly; "I deplore this hostile action"; "we lamented the loss of benefits" [syn: deplore, lament, bemoan]

Usage examples of "bewail".

Malagigi, hearing him bewail his loss, bade him be of good cheer, promising to restore Bayard ere long, although he would be obliged to go to Mount Vulcanus, the mouth of hell, to get him.

Francisco de Bazan and Antonio de Cueva, were seated on the ramparts of the siege works, bewailing the dull life to which they were confined.

With hypocritical tears he then bewailed his own fate, saying that, although ready to risk all for another, there was no one near him to speak a good word for him in his time of bitterest need.

Etzel, Dietrich, and Hildebrand, in turn, extolled the high deeds and bewailed the untimely end of each hero.

There she received the news of the battle of Friedland, and bewailed the misfortunes and disgrace of Prussia.

Berlinton still saw with surprise and admiration the exquisite face and form of the chosen of her brother, whom she now so sincerely bewailed that, had her own wealth been personal or transferrable, she would not have hesitated in sharing it with him, to aid his better success.

One of them was a short, plump man, who wept piteously and bewailed his fate, even though his elite guards jabbed him with their spears, urging him to put on a better face for the crowds.

And their friends and their kindred gathered together and bewailed them for three days, as was the custom of the country, and returned their sacred remains unto the womb of the mother of all human kind.

She particularly bewailed the unequal share of misfortune which had overtaken Cary Singleton.

Without consulting the dictates of religious zeal, he was prompted, by humanity and gratitude, to bestow the last honors on the remains of his deceased sovereign: and Procopius, who sincerely bewailed the loss of his kinsman, was removed from the command of the army, under the decent pretence of conducting the funeral.

The queen of the Suevi bewailed the death of a husband inhumanly massacred by her brother.

According to their national custom, the Barbarians cut off a part of their hair, gashed their faces with unseemly wounds, and bewailed their valiant leader as he deserved, not with the tears of women, but with the blood of warriors.

Eudoxia herself, who advanced to meet her friend and deliverer, soon bewailed the imprudence of her own conduct.

The soldiers resented the disgrace, and bewailed the loss, of their general.

Heinrich, who had bewailed the misfortunes of his dear master during his enchantment so long and so bitterly, that his heart had well-nigh burst.