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(verb) express grief verbally |
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Synonyms: keen |
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Related Words: express emotion, express feelings |
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(noun) a cry of sorrow and grief; "their pitiful laments could be heard throughout the ward" |
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Synonyms: lamentation, plaint, wail |
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Related Words: complaint |
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(verb) regret strongly |
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Synonyms: bemoan, bewail, deplore, regret |
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Related Words: complain, kick, kvetch, plain, quetch, sound off |
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(noun) a mournful poem; a lament for the dead |
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Synonyms: elegy |
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Related Words: poem, verse form |
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(noun) a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person |
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Synonyms: coronach, dirge, requiem, threnody |
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Related Words: keen, song |
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