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UK
/bɪwˈeɪl/
]
VERB
-
regret strongly
I deplore this hostile action
we lamented the loss of benefits
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.