Lament /(?)/

La·ment

Lament

v. i.
  1. To express or feel sorrow; to weep or wail; to mourn.
    Jeremiah lamented for Josiah.
    — 2 Chron. xxxv. 25.
    Ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice.
    — John xvi. 20.

Lament

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Lamented; p. pr. & vb. n. Lamenting

  1. To mourn for; to bemoan; to bewail.
    One laughed at follies, one lamented crimes.

Lament

n.
  1. Grief or sorrow expressed in complaints or cries; lamentation; a wailing; a moaning; a weeping.
    Torment, and loud lament, and furious rage.
  2. An elegy or mournful ballad, or the like.