Crossword clues for ruing
ruing
- One breaking step showing remorse
- Feeling bad about head of government upon downfall
- Regretting exercising authority without latitude
- Being sorry for government after collapse …
- Having second thoughts about toupee, staying at home
- Deploring sort of turn in a circus?
- Feeling sorry about
- Having second thoughts
- Having regrets about
- Feeling bad about
- Showing regret
- Being sorry for
- Wishing one hadn't
- Showing contrition
- Penitent activity
- Kicking oneself
- Hardly recalling fondly
- Feeling sorry for
- Feeling badly about
- Being contrite
- Feeling regret
- Contrite
- Remorseful about
- Having second thoughts about
- Having certain misgivings
- Wishing undone, as an unethical act
- Regretting greatly
- Sorry about
- Kicking oneself for
- Activity for Niobe
- Penitent's activity
- Feeling contrite
- Regretful
- Repenter's activity
- Penitent's process
- Looking back regretfully
- Full of regret
- Feeling remorse about
- Repentant
- One called round, being sorry
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ruing
Rue \Rue\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rued; p. pr. & vb. n. Ruing.] [OE. rewen, reouwen, to grive, make sorry, AS. hre['o]wan; akin to OS. hrewan, D. rouwen, OHG. hriuwan, G. reun, Icel. hruggr grieved, hrug[eth] sorrow. [root] 18. Cf. Ruth.]
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To lament; to regret extremely; to grieve for or over.
--Chaucer.I wept to see, and rued it from my heart.
--Chapmen.Thy will Chose freely what it now so justly rues.
--Milton. To cause to grieve; to afflict. [Obs.] ``God wot, it rueth me.''
--Chaucer.To repent of, and withdraw from, as a bargain; to get released from. [Prov. Eng.]
Wiktionary
ruing
vb. (present participle of rue English)