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Definition

to express grief or regret

Although lament typically refers to a feeling or simple vocal expression, it can refer to a vocal expression as complex as a sad song or poem. It can even refer to sad, but non-vocal music — as when Tennessee Williams references background music in A Streetcar Named Desire.

She lamented the loss.

lamented = expressed grief about

We lamented our sad circumstances.

lamented = expressed grief about

She lamented, saying "Woe is me!"

lamented = expressed grief

My parents were lamenting that they hadn't seen Willow and Henry and the baby in months.
Gayle Forman -- If I Stay

lamenting = regretting

Their champion's fate with pity they lament,
Virgil -- The Aeneid

lament = grieve (express grief or sadness)

let me lament, with tears
William Shakespeare -- Antony and Cleopatra

lament = expressing grief or regret

...and down the wind came the voices of the people of Esgaroth lamenting their lost town and goods and ruined houses.
J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Hobbit

lamenting = expressing regret for

Gilgamesh lamented; seven days and seven nights he wept for Enkidu,
Unknown -- The Epic of Gilgamesh

lamented = expressed grief and sorrow passionately

He was feeling sorry for himself, and lamenting the fact that his life could have changed so suddenly and so drastically.
Paulo Coelho -- The Alchemist

lamenting = expressing grief

If you see bees loafing and lamenting, you can bet their queen is dead.
Sue Monk Kidd -- The Secret Life of Bees

lamenting = expressing grief

Most lamentable day, most woeful day
That ever, ever, I did yet behold!
William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet

lamentable = sad

(Editor's note: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.)

...then the lamentation rose out of him, loud and sustained as the conch.
William Golding -- Lord of the Flies

lamentation = sorrowful cry

(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)

High above us in the darkness a solitary mocker poured out his repertoire in blissful unawareness of whose tree he sat in, plunging from the shrill kee, kee of the sunflower bird to the irascible qua-ack of a bluejay, to the sad lament of Poor Will, Poor Will, Poor Will.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

lament = expression of grief

SECOND MESSENGER Hearing the loud lament above her son With her own hand she stabbed herself to the heart.
Sophocles -- Antigone

lament = expressing grief or regret

The river sang with a voice of suffering, longingly it sang, longingly, it flowed towards its goal, lamentingly its voice sang.
Hermann Hesse -- Siddhartha

lamentingly = in a manner that expresses grief or regret

"I have bought the mansion of a love, but not possess'd it" was his lament.
Olive Ann Burns -- Cold Sassy Tree

lament = expressed grief or regret

He says that this seems to be a poem about England but it is a lament for the poet's native land, our own native land, Ireland.
Frank McCourt -- Angela's Ashes

lament = sad poem

A cry of lamentation went up.
George Orwell -- Animal Farm

lamentation = passionate grief or sorrow

She, being the nearest woman relative, raised a formal lament for the dead of the family.
John Steinbeck -- The Pearl

lament = verbal expression of grief

I was no longer capable of lamentation.
Elie Wiesel -- Night

lamentation = passionate expression of grief or sorrow

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