lament

LAMENT', verb intransitive [Latin lamentor.]1. To mourn; to grieve; to weep or wail; to express sorrow.Jeremiah lamented for Josiah. 2 Chronicles 35:25.2. To regret deeply; to feel sorrow.LAMENT', verb transitive To bewail; to mourn for; to bemoan; to deplore.One laughed at follies, one lamented crimes.LAMENT', noun [Latin lamentum.] Grief or sorrow expressed in complaints or cries; lamentation; a weeping.Torment, and loud lament and furious rage.[This noun is used chiefly or solely in poetry.]