[ UK /bɪwˈe‍ɪl/ ]
VERB
  1. regret strongly
    I deplore this hostile action
    we lamented the loss of benefits
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How To Use bewail In A Sentence

  • From his initial statements, we see Antony bewailing his outcast state and blaming it on Cleopatra.
  • A mezzotint plate produced fewer impressions than a line engraving, but the engravers bewailed its invention, as being an easier and more facile process.
  • A writer in the left-wing magazine Mother Jones recently bewailed that "in any other year [Toomey] would be among the most conservative candidates in the country," but in this one he "is on a glide path to take Arlen Specter's old Senate seat. The Moderates of 2010
  • I was reminded of the old Eastern saying: `Loss of money is bewailed with louder lamentation than a death. TANK OF SERPENTS
  • For several years there have been letters and articles in your newspaper bewailing the traffic conditions along the main road arteries and particularly between Morecambe and Lancaster.
  • The song, from which I removed the family name, was published in the 1890s, and bewailed the loss of the family name, in the 17th century, by Royal proscription.
  • He bewailed the breaches of discipline.
  • Carrion crows bewail the dead sheep and then eat them. 
  • Landlords and administrators complained, contesting the legality of the takeover, bewailing deforestation, and, most interestingly, arguing that the latter caused dangerous soil erosion.
  • Carrion crows bewail the dead sheep and then eat them. 
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