What is "bemoans"

Usage examples of "bemoans".

Helen adds her own, surprisingly not very flattering description of Paris and bemoans her fate that will be sung by the poets to come.

He bemoans them, and, condoles their state with the Secretary, saying, ‘Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and that Mansoul had walked in my ways!

In my favorite translation, Pandarus bemoans his fate for forty lines, has a long dialogue with a Trojan captain named Aeneas—yes,the Aeneas—and the two go charging at Diomedes in a chariot, flinging spears at the wounded Achaean.

Without the northern no-fly zone, and with the United States explicitly forswearing interference in Iraq's internal affairs, the Kurds would have no friends but the mountains, as their traditional saying bemoans.